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...Hinsdale, Ill., for example, Fran Gaik shows off her new exercise center with all the enthusiasm householders once displayed for renovated living rooms and master bedrooms. The contemporary black-and-gray room with padded wallpaper and a mirrored wall contains a built-in sound sys- tem, a luxurious whirlpool-sauna and tanning bed, and about $4,400 worth of exercise apparatus. "It's very sensuous," says Gaik, 35, who with her husband owns a company that sells health insurance. "My friends almost look at it as an orgy room...
...Malkin Athletic Center offers new homes to both the wrestling and fencing teams, fully equipped with expanded shower, locker, and sauna areas. The renamed facility also has provided for increased office and storage space throughout the building. New mahogany windows, slate roof, and new wiring throughout the building round out the major renovations...
Borodin recalls Shevardnadze as an obsessive worker who often spent 14 hours a day at his office. A fitness enthusiast and jogger, Shevardnadze installed an exercise room and a sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata...
...there is a redeeming element of human interest, it is the people of the Mesabi Iron Range, who play themselves as the descendants of the Finnish town settlement. There are some wonderful scenes of June's visits with an ancient Finnish woman, picking berries, relaxing in an outdoor sauna, and sharing a mutual unspoken wisdom in a language of their own. The incongruity of these visits, far from distracting, offers moments of genuine refreshing documentary that are welcome relief from the hammering proletarian-minded conscientiousness of the jarring town scenes. Despite its oppressive air, Wildrose hints at an unconscious beauty...
...trusted secretary seduced 17 years ago by an East German agent whom she has served faithfully ever since as a spy in the West German President's office, 2) a senior counterespionage official who thwarts a kidnaping attempt in Austria by a friend he met in a Cologne sauna, 3) a mysterious woman who places an obituary notice in the London Times for three people who never existed...