Word: parlorized
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John Sasso excels at a very simple thing: he listens. He fixes people with a steady gaze and, unlike most political operatives, does not cut them short. It is a disarming trait and not a parlor trick. Sasso actually takes what he hears and factors it into his plans. For he is, above all, a strategist, and any bit of stray information will be used to formulate his design...
Callers send in their suggestions for new Giraffes to the project's tiny office off Langley's main street, next door to a beauty parlor and across from the volunteer fire department. Many nominations come from 2,000 widely scattered members, most of whom pay $25 a year to support the project's work...
...would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen? "It's not me." As a matter of fact, Edberg describes his fundamental hope as the ability to continue patronizing a particular pizza parlor in anonymity...
...Even parlor operators are getting the message. Rich Boggs, president of an Atlanta company that runs four health clubs, removed all but two of the clubs' ten tanning machines a year ago. His concern was justified: based on a survey of 62 hospitals, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that there were 1,781 emergency visits nationwide last year for injuries related to tanning booths. The year before, Teenagers Jennifer Tyree and Aida Sabato suffered excruciating eye pain after visiting a Manhattan tanning parlor. Reason: because they did not wear protective goggles, their corneas were seared by overexposure...
...unfashionable label to the "tanned look." Some sunbathers, though, insist that working up a tan goes beyond vanity. Tracey Mandell, 17, of Los Angeles, went to a salon for 30 minutes a day for two weeks before a Palm Springs vacation. Like many others, she is convinced that a parlor "base tan" effectively protects against sunburn. Some researchers agree, as long as the tanning is gradual. But many others contend it is a "myth" that a UVA base tan can provide protection. Dermatologist Gary Peck of the National Cancer Institute predicts that today's tanners will pay the price tomorrow...