Word: souveniring
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...little island of Chappaquiddick last week, tourists gawked at the scene, and souvenir hunters chipped pieces of wood away from Dike Bridge. For a time the car that Senator Edward Kennedy had driven off the bridge the night of July 18-19 was left unprotected, and some people went so far as to take bits of shattered glass and strips of chrome from it. Those curious about what happened that night meanwhile continued to chip away at Kennedy's patchy story of the accident that took the life of Mary Jo Kopechne...
...Hughes' 476-room Landmark Hotel, whose qualifications for uniqueness include "the world's longest swimming pool" (240 ft., shaped like a hot-water bottle) and the only high-altitude casino (on the 29th floor) in town. The usual spate of show-biz celebrities turned up to collect souvenir plastic orange blossoms at the opening -but Billionaire Hughes was nowhere to be seen...
...Eluards duly installed the fugitive in an apartment in the same building, and Ernst took a menial job in a souvenir factory. It was obviously no place for an artist, and so Eluard offered Ernst a commission to decorate a house that he had acquired at Eau-bonne, 15 miles outside Paris. The young maverick made the most of the opportunity. He let his playful brush and imagination run rampant over walls, doors and ceilings. By the time Ernst was finished, he had transformed the small stone villa into a uniquely hallucinatory backdrop, hi these surroundings, the founders of Surrealism...
...hundreds of bohemian writers and artists. One of the first hippies to come was D. H. Lawrence, whose ranch and grave near by have been turned into a literary shrine. Swarms of tourists followed those early migrants, and Taos County now boasts ski resorts, art galleries and countless souvenir shops...
...died on the gallows, the amateur hangmen were apt to miscalculate the drop; at least once, the force of the fall tore the victim's head off his body. If a corpse were not carefully guarded, it could wind up in the hands of the souvenir hunters, who had a nasty habit of flaying celebrities and preserving them for posterity. For example, Big Nose George Curry, who was done to death by a posse at Castle Gate, Utah, survived his execution in the form of a man-hide wallet...