Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Husbands, it's 10 a.m. Do you know where your wives are? Selling real estate? Processing words? Marauding the malls? Forget it. Every weekday morning in Pennington, N.J., an upscale village of 2,200 about halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, a number of busy wives and a sprinkling of single women put aside all thoughts of jobs, husbands and children to gather for what has become a new style women's club. In the aerobic dance classes at the local Jazzercise center, women are talking about who's hot on the silver screen, trading bargain tips and supporting...
...innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste time. You have to tell yourself that you're going to do something productive like exercise. A lot of women come because they want to look better. They stay to socialize...
...weekday morning out on Route 31, between Pets of Pennington and Party Things!, the Jazzercise center is alive and humming. Driving everything from BMWs to Toyota pickups, women arrive for class with coffee mugs in hand. The class is a mix of violin teachers, novelists, horse breeders and substitute teachers who range in age from 20 to 60. Some drop off preschool children at the center's nursery; others gather in small groups to discuss someone's vacation tan and the pros and cons of buying a car for a 17-year...
...regulars threw a swinging bachelorette party at Chippendale's, the male stripper club over in New York City. Says the newlywed: "We rented a limousine. We partied all the way in and all the way back." They also brought back pictures of the goings-on to show the Pennington class. Mattia and her new friends have remained close; they often meet for dinner...
...Pennington said the crew's power conservation efforts would not hurt the experiments...