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...witness, for example, a long-overdue transition from an emphasis on feeling-"If it feels good, do it!"-to a keener focus on thought; feelings, at least the transcendent obliterations accomplished with drugs or extravagant sexual experiments, do not solve problems. Nor do the lesser sybaritisms of a hot-tub culture that in the '60s and '70s elaborated the idea of consumer comfort into a supine and giggling version of decadence...
...Tub-shower and washing machine are eradicated...
Anyone going to see A Change of Seasons should not be late; the title sequence offers some fetching glimpses of Derek nude in a hot tub-a sort of "10"-type poster that moves. Beyond that, the film is adequately summarized by one character, who complains of being caught up in "a sleazy farce...
...past six years. She installed the tank last April in a bedroom of her 25th-floor Manhattan apartment. Now five people a week shed their clothes, as well as their sense of time and space, and for $25 spend one hour exploring their psyches in the Epsom tub or simply enjoying a good soak...
...success breeds venality, and many a pub lisher acts on the principle that the small change in piggy banks is just as negotiable as the currency in vaults. That money has recently made publishers more willing to experiment with packaging than with fresh content. Books that float in the tub, or smell of perfume when they are scratched, or assume the shapes of trains, or pop up with paper cutouts, can take the place of stories that children need to frame their perceptions of life. "It is vir tually impossible to earn a living at writ ing for children unless...