Word: hiltonization
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...holding to more strenuous notions of art, whatnots like that seemed too flimsy for words. Actually, the reviewers had words, plenty of them, including pathetic, precious and farce. Though he had notable defenders, the bad press was such that the show's curator, Marcia Tucker, eventually lost her job. Hilton Kramer, who was then the unappeasable critic of the New York Times, dismissed Tuttle with a few lines that followed the artist around for years. Playing off Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's famous directive that less is more, Kramer announced that "in Mr. Tuttle's work, less is unmistakably...
...refers to the tedious process of linking uncooperative computers together. Worse, it describes the superficial routine of introducing yourself to others long enough to ask for their business cards. Shallow and a bit awkward? Surebut wildly popular nonetheless. As Ive quickly learned, networking is Capitol Hills Paris Hilton...
...Hungary is building two of them a year and Bulgaria already has 23. Particularly popular are the five-star spas and "wellness" centers. For now, supply is outpacing demand, meaning typical room rates of 3200 a night can be halved by package deals. "They aren't typical Hilton guests in jackets and ties," says Paul Kovacs, spokesman for the Hilton Budapest, which gets heavy weekend traffic. "These are young people, 25 to 40, mainly couples. They go on travel tours. They drink beer. It's leisure," he says. Look out, though, when the British stag parties start arriving, says Marketa...
...manages to keep the influx down to a steady trickle of around 100 visitors a day. With a population of 36 million, Burma has more than twice as many citizens as Australia; yet the entire country has only a third as many hotel rooms as the Las Vegas Hilton. Along the road to Mandalay, the nation's second city, locals pedal away furiously in trishaws, and in Pagan, the nation's great temple-filled tourist site and one of the architectural wonders of Asia, the principal method of transportation is horse-drawn carts...
...rent Cleese's films for as much as $180 a week or buy them for about $650 each. Saks Fifth Avenue bought a copy of a popular film called If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour, which deals with customer relations, for each of its 43 department stores. Hilton International will show Video Arts films to at least 2,000 managers this year. Says Iain Hall, director of Hilton's training program: "The humor works very well. People can laugh and they can learn at the same time...