Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...going to go boom, boom. I can just feel it. It's like when you're waiting for a pimple to come up." Not having had time to become jaded or to embrace a pragmatically spartan regimen, she still likes rock-'n'-roll joints like the Ritz and the Peppermint Lounge. She likes to eat a brownie, strawberry ice cream and whipped cream horribility, and as she does so she looks innocent enough to break an art director's heart. She is sufficiently seasoned, however, to set meticulously aside cab chits, makeup bills and other tax-deductible receipts every evening...
...client sips a cup of peppermint tea, takes a shower, then pads along a plastic-covered carpet into a dim room lighted by two candles and filled with the soothing recorded sounds of wind chimes and bird chirps. He steps into a flotation tank and lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish...