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SPAH (pronounced "spa") is not yet an official club, but it has already begun to make its mark on the student body: More than 60 SPAH t-shirts, almost the entire initial printing, have been sold since Saturday, and more...
...BOTTOM LINE: For reasons not clear, the author amusingly satirizes rich health faddists at a turn-of-the-century spa...
...author has resurrected a historical figure, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...
...pump up at the spa, bake their chests on the beach, use Rogaine as a hair spray. Yuppie vanity knows no gender. Yet Death Becomes Her says the yearning for youth is solely a female problem. This is a movie that hates women every bit as much as Enchanted April adores them...
...everyone's idea of gay liberation is a magazine modishly modeled on Vogue or GQ, albeit with same-sex couples parading fashions and lesbians fantasizing about their ideal spa. But those willing to set aside political correctness for gossipy profiles, moody travel pieces and smart reviews of gay-tinged pop culture -- along with pieces about abortion, aids and activism -- can now look forward to the quarterly publication...