Word: spa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even that last outpost of anorexia, the modeling agency, is being renovated into a new-woman spa. Observes Eileen Ford, who runs her own top agency in New York City: "Models used to look fragile, plucking their eyebrows and wearing pancake makeup. God, they looked terrible! Now I get girls in here who are so fit they've got legs like Muhammad Ah'. That's not ideal either, but it's part of the '80s look: a firm body, healthy hair and skin, and a look of serene determination in the eyes. Today, health is beauty. You can't have...
...115th meeting of horse racing's venerable summer camp at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., opened earlier this month as regular fans returned to their favorite spa. Once again hotels and restaurants are jammed with people who seem to have leaped straight out of New Yorker cartoons, and the jewel thieves who shadow the wealthy have put in their usual appearance. It would seem that nothing could disturb these genteel August rites...
...privately held Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis., creator of the Infinity Bath, the Super Spa and other exotica for people who want their bathrooms to be fun as well as functional. Says Chairman Herbert Kohler Jr., 43, heir to the century-old plumbing dynasty: "In times of recession, we don't pull back." Even though Kohler has had to lay off 300 of its 6,000 workers because of slow sales of some products, the company is going ahead with its most ambitious capital spending program ever. This year Kohler will invest $50 million, more than...
...company has since introduced the Infinity Bath, a kidney-shaped tub for two (price: $2,000), and the Super Spa, a giant whirlpool ($4,000) that can come with a built-in table for those who, for example, want to play poker as they soak. Kohler's masterpiece is the $12,500 Environment, a pleasure chamber that pampers bathers with "tropic rain, jungle steam, chinook winds and Baja sun," all accompanied by soothing stereo music...
Indeed, it can be said that without Tune "Nine"almost certainly would have been "Zero." Based on Federico Fellini's 1968 movie 8½, it is the story of an Italian film director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would...