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...back because, after 2½ years, it still was not White House broken. · It may be the only gym that contributes profits to California's Campaign for Economic Democracy, solar energy, tenants' rights and better housing. It could only be located in Beverly Hills, and the proprietress could only be Jane Fonda, who founded her health salon after discovering how exercise helped her slim down for her bikini-clad role in California Suite. "I started classes, five times a week. It was the most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...tourist attraction. To the right sits a fourposter. It is roped off and its curtains are drawn. In the rear is a stand displaying souvenir dishes and postcards. Also on sale are toy replicas of a man in bed. Two tourists, a husband and wife, enter the room. The proprietress announces that the admission is $2 each. Replies the man: "Two dollars! Shit!" Leave it to the man who brought opera to both Broadway (The Consul) and film (The Medium) to bless the operatic lexicon with one of the commoner four-letter words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Souvenir Opera | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...products-from $50 silk scarves to $150,000 necklaces-profitably in American turf. At last count, in an eleven-block stretch of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, there were eleven Italian botteghe, each one apparently striving to be the most exclusive shop on its block. "Fifth Avenue?" asks the proprietress of one recent arrival. "Oh, you must mean La Quinta Strada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Quinta Strada | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...Bloodlines. What has made Secretariat a superhorse? His is a riches-to-riches story, a compound of good genes, good training and good luck. He has been particularly fortunate in his three human partners: Principal Owner Penny Tweedy, proprietress of The Meadow farm in Virginia, and her two French-Canadian colleagues, Trainer Lucien Laurin and Jockey Ron Turcotte (see box next page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...nicknamed "Big Red." "He's like a big bull running against a bunch of kids," one trainer says. "He's the biggest colt I've ever trained," says Lucien Laurin, "and maybe the best looking." "I call him 'Sexy,' " says Penny Tweedy, the proprietress of Meadow Stables. Fans have responded with enthusiasm, wildly cheering every victory, lustily booing him in defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turns Time in Kentucky | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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