Word: spa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Square-jawed and white-haired, Republican Roger Jepsen of Iowa is the very picture of senatorial splendor. His distinguished demeanor, however, belies a propensity for personal blunders. Last June an Iowa reporter uncovered an application he had signed in 1977 for membership in a "leisure spa" that advertised "nude modeling, nude encounters and nude rap sessions." Jepsen explained that he had joined in "a moment of weakness" that occurred before he became a born-again Christian and won his surprising 1978 victory over liberal Senator Dick Clark. Last year Jepsen was stopped for driving alone in a lane reserved...
...details of the visit to West Germany by East German Communist Party Leader Erich Honecker. At similar regular sessions during the past three months, the four East German envoys and their West German counterparts had agreed that Honecker would meet with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a health spa hotel. They had even decided that the Wiebelskirchen musical corps would serenade the East German leader at his birthplace in the Saarland. With the visit less than a month away, they had come to discuss the wording of the final communiqué that both German leaders would issue...
...Hockey Captain Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with the Olympians...
...Leisure Spa offered "nude modeling, nude encounters and nude rap sessions" to men who would pay a $10 membership fee-tipping extra, naturally. So what was Roger Jepsen, staunch promoter of traditional family values, doing there on March 15, 1977? Jepsen, now a Republican Senator from Iowa, had many explanations last week. It was, he said, "a moment of weakness." He dropped in thinking the spa was a legitimate health club, he contended, and left in a few minutes after discovering what was really being offered for sale-though he did sign an application. Anyway, the visit occurred half...
What Israeli Novelist Aharon Appelfeld relates in this brief, matter-of-fact story, more parable than novel, is the dissolution of life at the imagined spa. In volume after volume the author has been obsessed with the time of clouded horror just before the Holocaust. Two previous novels, Badenheim 1939 and The Age of Wonders, take place in prewar Austria. Tzili: The Story of a Life is a fictional account partly based on Appelfeld's escape from a concentration camp at the age of nine and his three years of hiding from the Nazis in the Ukrainian countryside...