Word: knickknacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second to believe that the door has slammed shut right behind him. A paradise is by its nature a fine and private place, a deserted island or a solitary glade; Adam and Eve would have seemed considerably less charmed had they been surrounded by squawking kids, knickknack vendors and a row of time-share condos. Every visitor hopes to keep his idyl to himself; he's in heaven, and hell is other people. "The place is a Utopia," he's likely to tell his friends, "but there's no point in your going there. I saw it pristine...