Word: spa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtle tonal shifts. Romano, the ebullient loser he plays in Nikita Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes, is a virtual anthology of Marcello males, and the actor finds vibrant life in each of them. In his rich wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years later, reminiscing with a stranger, he is the old seducer whose spirit nearly broke when his heart did. Dark Eyes...
...military men who were his partners. Last week committee investigators discovered that Secord may have withdrawn as much as $300,000 from an account set up by Hakim to pay for amenities such as a Piper Seneca airplane, a Porsche sports car and a visit to a health spa. In his testimony to the committee last month, Secord indignantly insisted he did not benefit from the weapons deals; he may now be summoned back to Capitol Hill to explain the discrepancies...
German troops swept into France in 1940, occupying Paris and three-fifths of the country. A "free" zone was governed from Vichy, a health spa in south central France, under Marshal Philippe Petain...
...even, and if it does the council will make back the $12,000 investment. But under the terms of the council's agreement, it was not out of the financial woods even after the Bright Hockey Center concert sold-out the first day tickets went on sale. When the SPA set ticket prices, it apparently did not take into account that even a full house would not cover Costello's $33,500 appearance...
...line. Council members in part justified the investment in the concert by arguing that reduced ticket prices would make the Costello show more affordable than professionally produced concerts. Apparently, however, the council did not do the research necessary to know if that would be the case. Tickets, which SPA Vice Chairman Jeffrey A. Nachmanoff at first said would cost between $9 and $14, had to be sold at the higher price...