Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beloved Mrs. Everest. American aristocrats such as Franklin Roosevelt also had treasured nannies, but will the new nanny to the upper middle class have a similar impact? That will take a generation to discover. Meanwhile, they are charting a new egalitarian course between the pantry and the parlor. Says Bunge: "They're not servants and they're not new sisters. What are they? That's what the nannies have to figure out." Mary Poppins may be an outdated stereotype, but it just may take a spoonful of sugar--or two--to help such assertive new medicine go down in America...
Though tanning parlors do their biggest business from January to May, catching indoor rays is becoming a year-round pastime. Some palefaces like to establish a base tan before going on vacation; others simply prefer the tanning parlor to a trek to the beach. "I used to call in to work sick so that I could lie out in the sun," says Lola Lanza, 41, of Houston. "Now I can just come here on my lunch hour." Jeannie Frazier, 25, who spends $60 a month to cultivate her tan, maintains that a salon is "better than...
...reply that tanning machines are safer than sunlight because they can be more carefully regulated. "Anything can be abused," says Randy Novak, owner of Tan Chicago. "But the damage from sunbathing comes from out of doors because it isn't controllable. You can reduce the danger at a tanning parlor." The Food and Drug Administration requires tanning machines to carry labels warning that users should wear goggles to protect their eyes and that people taking photosensitive drugs, including some antibiotics, should consult their doctors before going under the lamps...
...seem old-fashioned, but it was the necessary expression of a complex and honest mind. Those who take the trouble to acquire a taste for his novels seldom regret the effort. His critical works, now made conveniently accessible, offer similar rewards and, once read, a tantalizing and private parlor game: the desire to guess what Henry James might have said about everything he did not live to review...
Nutcracker is the story of twelve year old Marie (Clara in the ballet) the merry daughter of a wealthy German noble family. On Christmas eve Marie and her brother Fritz prepare to enter the parlor of their home where piles of gifts await them. They most eagerly anticipate the annual gift of their clockmaker Godfather Drosselmeir. Drosselmeir's elaborate present almost spoils the mood of the occasion as Fritz complains bitterly when he finds that he cannot enter the castle. Marie's eye however soon is distracted from Fritz to a small table a top which stands a beautiful little...