Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning in Pennington, N.J., an upscale village of 2,200 about halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, a number of busy wives and a sprinkling of single women put aside all thoughts of jobs, husbands and children to gather for what has become a new style women's club. In the aerobic dance classes at the local Jazzercise center, women are talking about who's hot on the silver screen, trading bargain tips and supporting new mothers and divorcees. The workout classes have become a combination gossip fence, networking center, self-help group, junior high locker room and place...
Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste...
...pulse-raising half-hour aerobic section of the class, there is only time for a quick "How's everything going with your (new baby, surgery, divorce, job, novel, college student)?" When the women settle to the floor to stretch tired muscles and rest racing hearts, however, the informal club comes to order...
...says, 'Hey, I'm getting married next month,' people start asking 'Have you bought your dress yet?' An emotion can coalesce around that kind of thing." When Mattia announced she was getting married, a couple of the regulars threw a swinging bachelorette party at Chippendale's, the male stripper club over in New York City. Says the newlywed: "We rented a limousine. We partied all the way in and all the way back." They also brought back pictures of the goings-on to show the Pennington class. Mattia and her new friends have remained close; they often meet for dinner...
...rooming group dubbed intersession "Club MedBraindead" and from Day 1 of January readingperiod, we were counting down the hours until wecould spend our break in an oblivion of food,drink and sleep...