Word: hot-tubbing
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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First the good news: Mary McCarthy has not mellowed, certainly not in the way that some Eastern intellectuals of the '30s and '40s did when they moved West to become hot-tub philosophers. McCarthy, fortunately, lives in Paris, where a sharp critical intelligence is as prized as a set of newly honed kitchen knives. Her Olympian view has also remained keen...
...latest crazes. Some 300,000 Americans have installed hot tubs in their homes and gardens, and another 120,000 are expected to be sold in the U.S. this year. Soothing and relaxing as the warming waters may be, the mini-spas can be killers. Typical of some hot-tub owners, the LaRozas had heated the water to about 114° F (46° C). Doctors and tub manufacturers recommend only 102° to 104° F (39° to 40° C), and even these temperatures should not be endured for more than 20 minutes at a time...
...sort seems to have happened to the LaRozas. Perhaps lulled by the too warm water and a bit of alcohol, they probably fell asleep minutes after settling into the spa. The sleep turned into coma, the coma to death. Though the deaths are the first to be attributed to hot-tub heatstroke, they are not likely to have been the only ones to occur so far. Says Coroner Kornblum: "God only knows how many cases have gone unreported...