Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches, and whose fibers assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner; ah, the opera house now overgrown by jungle...
...English antique fairs. "Three years ago," she says, "I used to buy only & bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...
...English antique fairs. "Three years ago," she says, "I used to buy only bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...
Even the high-priced Caribbean enjoyed a 10% increase in tourists this winter. Japan Club Tours in Los Angeles has doubled its business to Asia and is now booking 1,500 customers a month. Says Co-Owner John Graeler: "People are banging down our doors for tours. My partner and I are forever running over to Hong Kong to look for more hotel space. First we beg, then we scream, then we rant and rave, and we still don't get as much as we'd like." A cruise to Brazil to observe the progress of Halley's comet...
...Paris, $41 in New York. At the Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people into shops, and they become a little bit crazy. They just buy up the whole place," says Jeffrey Joseph, executive vice president of New York's Globus...