European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Whatever happened to weekend Leisure then right to left. Repeal with left leg. Shoulder Coll. Sit straight in a i chair and rela x your shoulders raise Bolh your shoulders As if you were shrugging. Gently. Extend shoulders As far up As you can then bring them Down. Repeat the up and Down motion live to 10 times. Then move your shoulders up Back Down and Forward several times. Then reverse the Molion. This exercise will help you relieve a lot of tension especially Whan you re sitting at a desk or a computer All Day says Seery Smith of nod by Randy Haft Allentown a morning Callow weekend Leisure Lime is threatened with Arlin con in the United slates. That warning comes ram a Survey thai says weekends Are becoming nothing More " than a stressful continuation of the work week for americans. Although people look Forward to weekends As an escape. From the pressures of their jobs a nationwide Survey done Tor the Beverly Hills Cali based Hilton hotels corp. Found most americans Don t use weekends As a recovery period. Instead they just do More work. The average adult spends 14 hours almost a full weekend Day doing chores running errands and meeting other obligations even working at their jobs. The work week seems to have expanded to six Days heading toward seven. -. " weekends Are in danger a Hillon official said. We be. Loss our weekend Leisure Lime to an unending list of things to  ,. /. Eighty Lour percent of americans fee no More energetic at the end of a weekend than they do at the end. Of a hectic work week according to Hilton s study of More. Than 1,000 adults dual career couples with children appear to be suffering the most. The company s findings could have significant. Ramifications Lor the travel Industry because if people have less free time they Are loss Likely to travel and of course. Less Likely to spend Money in hotels. The Survey shows an alarming trend that is developing Lor the future said Robert a Dirks Hilton s vice president of marketing the Hilton warning comes at a time when the trend in the travel Industry has been toward More weekend trips and fewer Fang vacations weekend vacations have been Manhattan s no 1 0 line up eighth Avenue Down seventh Avenue. Passengers who have been. On his bus Are startled by his resemblance to Robert Redford and the fact that he greets everyone with a Good Day or Good. Evening he to known As the singing bus Driver since he frequently bursts into song his Lavoile is All you need is love and what is the singing bus Driver s recurring dream certainly not gridlock. I m always accepting the Academy award in my dreams the aspiring actor. Said. I make a Nice Little speech and give roses to All the women in the audience which is a nicer dream than a great Many musicians say they have consider the conductor Julius rude and the recurring dream he had during Iho 22 years he was general director of the naw York City opera he would approach tha Thaler Only to tired the front door barricaded by such obstacles As a Brick Wall or a wooden hedge he and the cast would then climb through a window to get into the theater to perform. Arthur Cohn music director conductor of the Haddonfield n a symphony is even late for rehearsals in his dreams Christopher Keene becomes general director of the new York City opera in March Tut in his dreams though he often shows up a radames in aids. He is in costume the spotlight hits him he opens his. T9b9 Mouth and nothing comes out. The Only sound comes a rom the Soll Oul crowd demanding a refund Meizo sopranos in seems have dreams As varied As their roles Freder Lea Yon Stade often dreams 61 being in a Field of Beautiful Lowers when suddenly the Tranquility is interrupted by a thunderstorm definitely a dream that Calls for color one of Marilyn Home s recurring dreams resembles a 1940$ movie. It is in Black and Whit and she is being chased by the a Bis. As of the other night the Fleet looted Singer still had t been caught. Consider composers  David Earnest was a youngster in Odessa Texas he would dream he was falling through the rooms of a dark sinister victorian House. Today the composer whose most recent work includes takes of terror and murder or Soprano  still dreams of ailing through a House though it is no longer threatening. Recently it s been ranch style Earnest reported. The subject of Harold Brodkey s recurring dream is also dwellings to be specific about finding a terrific space to live in the author of stones in an almost classical Mode explained. I hear his place is available and i go to see it it has Walls of Glass Low rent and a Moat Trees and Good Streetcar connections he takes it. One of the fastest growing trends in travel according to the . Travel data Center which reports weekend travel Rose 9 percent in 1987 and almost 11 percent last year those growth rates Are almost twice As rapid As non weekend travel. Dirks said that Hillon s own weekend business has been increasing not decreasing. But. He said the Impact of people having less free Lime on weekends May be bit in the travel Industry in the very near future spokesmen Lor the us. Travel Industry arc not worried about Hilton s findings. They consider the study a Clever promotional gimmick to Market Hilton s own weekend packages. They be latched onto a Good marketing plan said Michele Kelley spokeswoman for the american hotel & Motel association. But ii does t necessarily rented that people Are not going on weekend  Hilton said that More than 65 percent of parents Are. Interested in weekend getaways. The  weekends Are most taxing for adults Arjes 35 to 49. Especially those with children. They Are More Home bound because they spend much More Timo on weekend housework than people without children 66 percent More Lime cleaning. 52 percent More Lime doing laundry and 43 percent More Lime cooking a spokesman or Marriott one of Hilton s Compeli lors. Also expressed scepticism about the predicted demise of weekend Leisure . The weekend is and will remain one of the most popular opportunities Tor Leisure activity including getting away for an escape said Gordon Lambourne manager of National Public relations at Marriott hotels and resorts in Washington . Hilton s marketing message is that it is Good Lor your health to get away Tor a weekend several limes a year preferably to one of its hotels. Bui Dirks said in the study. Was merely a sell serving marketing gimmick the company would have done the research Itsell rather than Hong an. Independent research company  Bruskin associates. And we would have had the findings Como put the Way we wanted  information released by Hilton about its Survey downplays the fact that Cost was found to be the no i one reason Why people Don t get away Lor a weekend followed. By other comm ailments and family obligations. Also Hilton did hot ask those surveyed in they were enjoying fewer weekend getaways because of other " demands v a a fifty live percent of females surveyed and 53 percent of males said they would be interested in going to a hold Biel or resort to escape household responsibilities and get away for Iho weekend,".according to a spokeswoman for the company married women arc most in need of a relaxing weekend break because Thoy Dolce most chores up to30 percent More than single women and Zvi hours More each weekend than men. The stars and stripes Page 15