Word: spa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THEY STREAMED INTO THE RESORT HOtel lobby Friday night, the best and the brightest of the new revolution, fatigued and untanned, still in suits rumpled from the Beltway fray. Here at the entrance to Miami's Doral Golf Resort and Spa was David Horowitz, leftist turned conservative author. Behind him strode movement martyr Judge Robert Bork, so foully denied a Supreme Court seat. And here was Richard Viguerie, political direct-mail pioneer and prodigal son. For the preceding few years on New Year's, Viguerie had partied with the enemy, surrounded by moderates and liberals in Hilton Head, South Carolina...
...last year's clothes because they're out of style or have a spot on them. This obsession with the "newest" and "best" is obscene in its own right, but her complaining also mistakes the MAC's purpose. It is not a fashion show nor the plush, sterilized health spa she so ardently desires. It is to provide facilities for those serious about getting and staying in shape. I suggest she try this before she clutters our newspaper with any more of her insufferable whining. --Drew Cummings...
...delight in quotation naturally endears it to postmodernist taste. Sometimes it's tea-party Ensor, without the bilious satire; sometimes it's Rus sian ballet. There are traces of Elie Nadelman, Odilon Redon, Watteau, Hieronymus Bosch and an over-the-top capriccio of swimmers in some celestial spa titled Natatorium Undine, 1927. Her painting of a spring sale at Henri Bendel's, with ladies squabbling over the merchandise like angry hummingbirds, resembles a Pompeian grotesque translated into the 1920s. She liked caricature too. In the Cathedrals, the series of New York historical-satirical-puzzle pictures that she considered her crowning...
...diverse as newspapers and consumer-electronics makers can show off their wares; and chat areas, where people can type at each other. My favorite bit of weirdness: the chat area, Chat World, is modeled on a hotel, with different floors, concierge (for questions, not dry cleaning), atrium, restaurant and spa. An online spa. Now that's my idea of exercise...
...discourse often revolves around keeping casinos away from decent people's homes. The promotional video produced by the Nevada Development Authority makes no mention at all of casinos. Even when a casino is a part of a new development, it is described as something else. Jack Sommer's Mountain Spa, the posh pseudo-Mediterranean resort about to start construction, will have a small "European-style" casino. But, says Sommer, "it's not really a casino. I call it a gaming amenity...