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During the three years that China's door was opened widest to the world, American Ambassador Winston Lord and his wife turned their embassy residence into an exciting salon for Chinese intellectuals. To the delight of those artists and academics who were regulars, these gatherings offered American films, disco lessons and a rare place to talk freely to one another -- and to their effervescent hostess, Shanghai-born novelist Bette Bao Lord. Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, she began recording their uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with...
...this a mind-expanding drug trip? A cult happening? The exercises mandated by an Indian guru? Not at all. The men and women at the Synchro Energize salon were engaged in a serious stress-reduction exercise, seeking to find greater serenity by donning special goggles that flash lights in the eyes and headphones that play tones and songs. This high-tech route to relaxation may sound far out, but it is starting to catch on. About a dozen stress- reduction salons have recently opened in the U.S., and they are beginning to spring up in machine-minded Japan...
...could be just another fleeting relaxation craze that attracts the curious and eventually bores them, like the flotation-tank phenomenon of the early 1980s. Not everyone likes the sensations the new stress-reduction machines produce. Complained a visitor to a Japanese salon: "It's like listening to an alarm clock all the time." Nonetheless, in this fast-paced era, professionals may turn on to new ways of combating stress -- especially since the habit will not show up in random drug tests...
Thomas Rowlandson's drawings and watercolors at the Frick Collection in New York City are friezes of dense and rowdy life in gaming room and salon...
...sick," she says. "I was just bored to death." Osborne quickly mastered basic computer skills and went on to study word processing at a local community college. "She bought a word processor and is now writing the history of her life," says Florence Wetzig, 69, a former beauty-salon operator who taught Osborne how to compute. "She has said to me many times that I saved her life...