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Exactly. Not every deposed "strongman" and dictatorial Alldaddy ends up as shattered as Lear on the heath. Napoleon was comfortable enough. He had a girlfriend called Rosebud and spent much of his day soaking in the tub. But no doubt a peculiar loneliness descends upon the autocrat condemned to live out his days in one of the upstairs rooms, like a mental case in the family. He is the Wizard of Oz, bereft of his wonder machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Camp that night was in a high, alpine meadow at the base of 10,035-ft. Goat Peak. Alas, the hot tub at the hut there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a bottle of Jack Daniel's out of her pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hut, Two, Three, Four | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...California, J-Paul Dumont knocked down the walls between his grown children's bedrooms in his Palo Alto home to set up a deluxe sweatshop complete with mirrored walls, sophisticated weight-lifting devices and a chrome rack that contains rows of dumb-bells. A whirlpool tub is in the bath next door. The $100,000 price tag also bought style: the entire suite is done in art deco. Working out, says Dumont, 55, an investment banker, "is a lot better at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Working Out in a Personal Gym | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...that Susan whines out against the desperation. It's not tract, but satire, asking that most forbidden of questions: Can anything come between the suburban housewife and her Calvins? Will the quiet wife of a New Jersey hot tub mogul seek excitement in a Susan universe so desperate that it allows for wet armpits? To paraphrase Aristotle, all the pipes in the world can't buy excitement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frantically Seeking Desperation | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...Tub, Tub...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Money for Nothing | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

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