Word: spa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just five months ago, but under its general manager, Fern Jellison, a veteran city employee, it has already run up a strong record. So far it has received more than 4,500 complaints, which involved a wide range of businesses from questionable land-sale schemes to fast-buck health-spa operations. Many of these complaints are resolved informally by one of the bureau's 14 investigators who visit the accused businessmen. The bureau has obtained refunds and cost adjustments amounting to $267,000. Says Jellison: "No one in our bureau says 'Sorry, we have no jurisdiction...
...departs from this upper-class play pattern when he stops at the colossal illuminated sign of the Olympic Studio and Spa, featuring Joe Santo, Mr. Alabama. The studio, an upholstered gym, does a good business jiggling lard off businessmen, but Blake has no interest in that. What shakes his unsuspecting soul is the weight room, the preserve of the body builders-grotesque, protein-stuffed Narcissuses, men intent on becoming planets...
...Spa, at O Brattle Street, is a newcomer to Harvard Square. It serves frozen yogurt and vanilla and chocolate soft ice cream (ala Dairy Queen). This custard isn't ice cream and it comes out of a machine, but it is served in a come (albeit a safety cone) and it does the trick on a hot day. Yogurt comes, which come in three rotating fruit flavors, are $.25, Soft ice cream comes...
...Square also has its share of ice cream parlors. Some have standard fare, like Brigham's (next to the Coop) and Bailey's (21 Brattle St.). Others are a little more exotic, like Baskin Robbins (1230 Mass Ave) which has 31 flavors, and the Spa (0 Brattle St.), which serves frozen yogurt...
...that William Inge used to write about. Her virginity has "burrowed in," and she gets more fey and deluded every year. A true believer in movie-magazine ads and a windy, unpublished correspondent to any number of letters columns, she comes to Dionysus Villa as to an old-fashioned spa, to alleviate the hope that "lay heavily within...