Word: spa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Guido does not have is a scrap of script or the ghost of an idea. He retreats to a Venetian spa to summon up the Muse but instead scares up the Furies-all the women in his life. Dressed all in black, the women seat themselves on detached all-white 2½-ft.-high cubes that symmetrically dot the stage. Raising a baton, Guido affects to conduct a discordant Greek chorus of lamentation...
Inside the spa building, in a small windowless room, an uptight, burned-out, more-fat-than-fit East Coast Type A female is submitting to an herbal wrap. A cup of alfalfa-mint tea precedes mummification. She sweats to the faint chimes of "music to relax and meditate by." The East Coast Type A resents being told to relax. The ranch's resident psychotherapist, Richard ("Bud") Murphy, will later tell her, "Many people come here seeking withdrawal from something-food, a bad marriage, personal problems, smoking-but they feel ambivalent and resist change...
...from Tulsa look like teen-agers but are actually in their 30s and mothers of three children each. Marilynn, a wife-mother-student, is ecstatic to be here alone: "I've never had a room of my own before." The mother and daughter with matching sulks are inveterate spa-hoppers. They are accustomed to the "pamper places," where guests are practically carried to exercise class, and they find life at Canyon Ranch irritatingly spartan. They are especially cross about being asked to think. "We have to choose our own classes here," whines one. The quiet blond in the corner...
...tell the story. There he was in 1978, nearly 50 years old, a fat, rich real estate developer with high blood pressure who was reaching the dispiriting conclusion that this "was the prime of my life, and it wasn't so great." Then he went to a California spa and "experienced a natural high for the first time in my life." So, with his wife Enid, he bought an old dude ranch, spent $6.8 million converting it, and now says, "It's a whole new life...
...lavish habitats, Grove Isle at Coconut Grove, Fla., has a garden graced with sculpture by Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson. Condo owners at the Turnberry Isle Yacht and Racquet Club in North Miami Beach have access to two Robert Trent Jones golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a marina, health spa and disco...