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...problem of the self and the state, of the self and others, lies at the heart of The Farewell Party. The novel's setting is a government health spa in an unnamed Eastern European socialist country. The spa caters to women who have fertility problems. A young nurse named Ruzena has no such difficulties. Only one time in bed with a famous touring trumpeter named Klima is enough to leave her pregnant. Klima has all but forgotten Ruzena when she calls some months later with the news. He returns to the fertility spa to try to convince her that...
...Russian and Eastern European satire, an ironic curtain has descended with an unmistakable clang. But there are quieter ironies as well. They deal with human limitations, and the all too human ability to invent illusions that disguise those limitations. For example, there is brilliant Dr. Skreta, head of the spa, a slightly mad scientist who practices personal eugenics by inseminating unwitting patients with his own sperm. A rich American expatriot named Bartleff dispenses fistfuls of U.S. half dollars while preaching a Christianity of joy in which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces...
...only frozen yogurt. "It's ice cream without guilt. It's magic," says the hopeful proprietor of Yogurt Yogurt, an Alexandria, Va., shop opening this week. The magic began four years ago in Cambridge's Harvard Square. There, in a hole in the wall called the Spa, William Silverman, a shrewd merchant, began selling the already popular cultured-milk product in a frozen version and soon attracted long lines of blue-jeaned teeny-boppers and J. Pressed Harvard men. The lines are still there. From the Spa, frozen yogurt leapfrogged to Manhattan's trendy Bloomingdale...
...South Carolina Gazette: "Although there is a great want of money to procure the necessities of life, yet large sums are weekly laid out for amusements." Nonetheless, the new trend toward medicinal use of mineral waters has become as popular in America as at Bath in Britain or Spa near Liège, and the social quadrille is considered part of the treatment. Among the most celebrated spots...
...always eccentric, the conclusion indefinite. Like Bobby Dupea, the runaway pianist of Five Easy Pieces, Craig is spiritually disenfranchised, in flagrant rebellion against his class. Craig revels in the funky spirit at the Olympic, and Rafelson, with his offbeat sense of humor, his knack for visual surprise, turns the spa into a suitably shabby field of honor. Joe Santo trains for the Mr. Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman getup. The owner of the Olympic, a toupeed madman who calls himself Thor Erickson (R.H. Armstrong), spies on Mary Tate through a peephole in the floor, finally goes berserk...