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...Atlanta Journal-Constitution has calculated how much a family of four will pay for a vacation to the Games. Out-of-towners with an average of $1,500 worth of tickets will pay $2,600 to stay six nights in a motel about 100 miles from town. (Some travel agencies require a minimum booking of six days even if tourists don't have tickets for all those days.) The visitors will then have to get up before dawn to be loaded on a bus for the two-hour trip to the city, where they'll pay about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPIC MONITOR | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...senior diplomat from Paulau was staying at the Super 8 Motel on Governor's Island for $55 per night during the U.N. anniversary weekend. Clinton's room cost 120 times that price. There is essentially nothing wrong with this, as long as we can afford it morally, meaning that money for hotel rooms does not take funding away from social service programs. America is a land of opportunity and it is a bastion for intellectual debate...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The Injustice of Capitalism | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

...tight was security that some were soon calling the conference "a boot camp run by Americans" and complaining that "life is really, really boring." But if the restrictions were deemed onerous, at least not everyone found the shag- rug-and-Formica decor so bad. "It's a bit like Motel 6," said Mohammed Sacirbey, Bosnia's Foreign Minister. "But I like Motel 6. 'Leave the light on.'" There were complaints about not being able to leave the base--although Milosevic was spotted Friday afternoon buying shoes in suburban Dayton, surrounded by a cocoon of Secret Service agents. "I've never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...Araki films, the true, unbreakable love match is between sex and death. Signs in discos and delis announce: WELCOME TO HELL, SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE EXECUTED, PREPARE FOR THE APOCALYPSE. And the magic number for everything (the price of a burger meal, the address of a motel, even Amy's cumulative SAT score) is 666, the mark of Satan in Revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ELEGY FOR DEGENERATION X | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

Dismissing the defense claim that the shooting had been an accident, a Houston jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of having murdered Tejano singing star Selena. The sentence: life in prison with no possibility of parole for 30 years. The March shooting, which took place in a Corpus Christi motel, is said to have occurred during a financial dispute between Selena and Saldivar, the former president of the singer's fan club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: OCTOBER 22-28 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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