A baby American alligator lounged in the tub, surrounded by a quintet of jittery lunchtime goldfish.

She shampooed and washed in the woman's shower room and wore the provided kimono to her assigned bath, an acrylic hot tub surrounded by shoji screens, except for its uphill side, which faced on scrub piñon trees trained by nature and twenty years of judicious care, into bonsai-like perfection.

In Nature's Kingdom the decor involves nooks containing papier-mache lions and a stuffed crocodile; there is also a raised tub surrounded by fake rock formations.

Some were crude - unsightly meat loaves in tin-foil tubs, surrounded by congealed fat.

Tata Young is later seen with Abhishek Bachchan and the two sit together in a hot tub surrounded by thousands of lit candles.

These generally find Ms. Winfrey in a state of soft-focus suburban satori; all rub-a-dub in a really big tub surrounded by candles and affirmation literature, or trailing a finger through the cool, still waters of a pond on her farm.

He indicated the centerpiece of the room, a huge sort of tub surrounded by an indoor deck of cedar, with steps on two sides.

He's especially pleased with a purple living room appointed with gray Cappellini chairs, a Paul Smith rug in a rainbow of colors, a black pool table and a photograph by Wang Qingsong, of a Chinese man in a tub surrounded by women.