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This is not just comedy, it is caustic satire, and that is what is puzzling. The pomposities of wealthy mid-Americans in 1907 are long dead and undefended. Health faddists are still abundant and deserving of mockery, but they wear Lycra now, and their spas offer aromatherapy, Nautilus machines and biofeedback. They won't recognize themselves in Boyle's mirror. The author's characters are self-evidently foolish -- the case does not need 476 pages of proving -- and so two-dimensional that there is no question of caring about them as if they had real blood and real pain. Which...
...elsewhere in the state, had a large parish and school in the city. The city's affluence came largely from the Federal Government, which had established a hospital and reservation around the mineral waters in the 1800s. The natives let a double jurisdiction grow up, and visitors to the spas were received with illegal (but openly practiced) gambling and prostitution. The local tales of Hope were traded for the legends of Al Capone carousing in the acrid steam of the bathhouses or at champagny circles around the roulette wheel...
...like Carnival's Fantasy and Royal Caribbean's Nordic Empress now lure passengers with soaring Hyatt-style atriums, neon-lit discos and casinos with low table limits. The elderly can still take a constitutional around the deck, of course, but the trend is toward state-of-the-art fitness spas and sports platforms for water skiers. Princess and Royal Caribbean lines have even bought islands for private beaches...
Rolling Hills Estates has an urban pest problem. The varmint travels in packs, digs holes in lawns, eats flower gardens, poops around pools and spas and, worst of all, starts screeching as early as 4 a.m. For sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
...question is not whether there will be a party schism but when. More is at stake than just ideology. Property worth billions of rubles, ranging from printing plants and party office buildings to Black Sea health spas and a luxury Moscow hotel, is held by the Communist Party. No one wants to be the first to leave the party and risk losing claim to a lucrative chunk of the property settlement when the divorce is completed...