Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that southernmost Florida island. Like Morgan, they are given to drinking in seedy bars, fishing in the Gulf Stream and insulting tourists. Nowadays the tide of tourism is enough to make the Harry Morgans pull up anchor and put out to sea. The place known affectionately as "the Last Resort" is fashionable again...
Writers, literary groupies and celebrities are lured by the island's romantic image. Wrote Alice Turner in New York magazine: "Key West is our winter Hamptons, the place we go to continue the conversation we started at Elaine's." But the resort is more laid back than the Hamptons, less frantic than other resorts. Says Author Nancy Friday: "There is none of the relentless chic. There are no competitive lunch baskets from Bloomingdale's." Luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Stephen Spender, Calvin Klein, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ralph Ellison and Thomas McGuane can be found avoiding...
...from the mainland, and building costs are very high. Most Conchs, as well as most of the tourists who love the island, seem convinced that the storms may indeed come, the booms may bust, but in the end Key West will still retain its flavor as the Last Resort...
...Administration will send to Congress for approval later this month. The program is to begin in the spring if voluntary energy savings do not reduce consumption. Among the elements: weekend closings for gas stations, and Government-ordered lowering of thermostats of public buildings. Gasoline rationing remains a last resort...
...release of taped transcripts of the hearings. These reforms are procedural and therefore do not require a full Faculty vote. But, as Besvinick observed, the reforms were meant to work as a whole "What good does barring legal counsel do, when the students have no appeals board to resort to?" she asked...