Word: esther
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ashram, 30 miles west of Los An-geles in Calabasas, offers no pampering frills at all. Bedrooms and bathrooms are shared by the ten guests, even celebrities like Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda and Esther Williams (who ventured some hints on how to clean the pool). It's "purgatory," Owner Anne- Marie Bennstrom cheerfully confesses. Others would place it further below. "You can come to us anytime, even the middle of the night, if you feel like crying," Fitness Instructor Anniqa Foress says, to soothe newcomers. The twelve-year-old Ashram is notorious for hiking trails so steep and narrow that...
Baird & McGuire is just this side of the border with Randolph, a town that has shared water supplies with Holbrook. Esther Ross, a Randolph resident, says she got worried in 1981 when she found herself going to a lot of funerals. There is a certain Times Beach ring to her recitation. "The people who owned the house next door were stricken by cancer," she says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims...
Thundrous applause greeted Sylester "Rambo/Rocky" Stallone and his svelte fiance Brigitte Nielsen, both staunch Reagan supportors, it appears. Then came Don DeFore, and Esther Williams, and Juanita Booker, and Roy Rogers, and Chad Everett, and Ephraim "FBI" Zimbalist, and Fred MacMurray, and Charlton Heston...and the list goes on. Reagan's Ambassador to Mexico was there, too, but he was upstaged by his actress wife...
Analysts viewed all these events as proof that the once glamorous computer industry is in a serious skid. "This is not a slowdown," said Esther Dyson, editor of the trade journal Computer Industry Daily. "This is an old- fashioned, dog-eat-dog shake-out. Before it's over, there's going to be a lot of red ink and some casualties. It's not going to be a pretty sight." The industry is still growing, to be sure, but at a dramatically reduced rate. It will show an estimated 23% gain this year, in contrast to a 56% increase...
...emphasis, holds forth on an unlikely subject for a conservative guru: the techniques of celestial navigation. The Fonz (Henry Winkler) steps off his motorcycle for some straight talk to children about sexual abuse. "Somebody touching your private parts," he urges, "is a secret you don't keep!" Esther Williams, the aquatic screen star from the 1940s and '50s, dives back into the pool to show parents how to teach their infants to swim...