Word: nirvana
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...flew in her apartment window, what could she do but ask, "Any messages?" When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled hot soup down her neck, her retort was, of course, "Never darken my Dior again." Miss Lillie, in fact, has long since passed into a sort of performers' nirvana and become a model for zany aunts and dowagers. She was, the various authors have told her, the inspiration for Mary Poppins, Auntie Mame and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit...
...inside our boxes. They are very happy if our political consciousness is limited to affairs in our own country, and they're happier if all you care about is your own state. And they are even happier if your political consciousness is limited to your city. And they reach nirvana when all you care about is yourself...
Most of yoga's devotees feel that the putative rewards of the exercises are worth the effort. Others may get something less than nirvana for their troubles. Dr. Joseph Chusid, a neurologist, told the A.M.A. Journal that sitting on the heels can damage the lower leg's peroneal nerve and lead to a complaint that he calls yoga foot drop...
...scientists. The alpha machine is still a long way from becoming Walker Percy's "lapsometer," which allowed Dr. Thomas More in Love in the Ruins to probe people's minds. But research is too new for anyone to claim that alpha training is a shortcut to nirvana. Electronic yoga remains a faddist's dream...
Like Fairyland. Designers such as Sherle Wagner of Manhattan and David Hicks of London stand ready to transform an ordinary bathroom into a soapy nirvana. "Today's bathroom," says Wagner, "is an escape area from these times of tension. It has become a spa at home." Most of Wagner's customers spend between $250 and $2,500 to renovate and redecorate their bathrooms, and the emphasis is on the higher end of that scale. "You can do a very very beautiful bathroom for $2,500," says Wagner. One customer has ordered a carved marble tub measuring...