Word: siesta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devoted to business. While light courses of pasta, meat or fish, salad and fruit are served, Paul keeps up a lively chatter with his table companions, often including Papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot, who has a permanent apartment at the summer villa. After a 1½-hour siesta, there is more work: reading (and often writing marginalia in) the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and planning or writing important documents. Like his predecessors, Paul works long hours. An hour or so for prayer in the evening, some minutes of symphonic music, a private walk in the garden...
...sake of efficiency, U.S. citizens have long been willing to give up many of the amenities of life that are common in less complex and slower-paced societies: clean cities, open space, the chance for an afternoon siesta. Until recently, most felt satisfied with the bargain. But now that the U.S. industrial and social system is delivering such "disproducts" as pollution and racial tension and no longer seems to be supplying the compensating efficiency, many Americans feel they have
...goes-for three days, at $72 per day. For every yang there's a yin -the sybaritic pleasure of a pedicure is naturally followed by the sweet agony of a 102-lb. Japanese girl walking on your back, massaging each vertebra with her toes. There is the Siesta Room, where you lie under artificial stars winking in a midnight-blue ceiling. But there is also the Orthion, a space-age torture rack that rolls, vibrates, heats up and stretches you in two directions at once. The end result: minus 5 Ibs. "Nice going, champ!" says Director Hutton...