Word: spa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incarnated (actually, of course, reincarnated) by Sean Connery, now 53, the film's promising premise is that the free world's all-pro free safety has lost a step or two in his duel with the forces of evil, and requires a rehabilitating stay at a health spa before he can once again be licensed to kill in his formerly youthful and exuberant manner...
...have proliferated to service these upscale fitness enthusiasts. Like its fancy counterparts elsewhere-New York City's Vertical Club and the New York Health & Racquet Club, suburban Washington's Sporting Club, Houston's Texas Club, the San Francisco Bay Club, West Los Angeles' Holiday Health Spa-the club has a clientele of well-to-do professionals, whose Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs crowd the underground garage...
Murdoch surrounds these stark questions with an abundance of local color. She provides a narrator (called N) and the English village of Ennistone (N's town), the site of an ancient hot spring where residents and tourists gather daily to bathe and socialize. Legend maintains that this spa has aphrodisiacal powers and was once associated with pagan rites of Venus. Vigilant congregations of Anglicans, Methodists, Catholics and Quakers keep watch on the "unholy restlessness" that periodically seizes Ennistone, a madness lately exemplified by reported sightings of flying saucers and the peculiar behavior of George McCaffrey. The town does...
Specialized treatment regimens are proliferating. Dr. Richard Miller has run 50 people through his "cokenders" spa (one week, $900) in the countryside north of San Francisco. During the week of therapy he offers the recovering overusers a toot of cocaine to test their resolve. In Los Angeles, new Cocaine Anonymous groups draw 700 people to weekly meetings. At South Miami Hospital, a coke-treatment program (four weeks, $6,300) has been discharging more than 300 patients a year...
Rooney writes movingly as well. His simply entitled "Mother" begins. "My mother died today. "Like others collected in the book, this essay includes carefully selected and seemingly unimportant details. "She was girl's high jump champion of Ballston spa in 1902". But his observations and attention to the unobserved further, rather than muddle, his conclusion. "There is no time for each of us to sweep for the hole world," he writes. "We each sweep...