Word: spate
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...Florida's major industry, is also changing to reflect its new international role. For the first time last year, the number of foreign visitors to Miami (4.7 million) passed domestic ones (3.8 million), generating $7.2 billion in business. Foreign tourism was set for another record this year, until a spate of tourist murders -- three of them Germans on three separate occasions just this year -- revived worries about Miami's rate of violent crime, the highest in the U.S. Despite the bad press, European airlines like British Airways and Iberia Airlines of Spain have increased capacity to the city. Even...
...spate of new books attacking Freud and his brainchild psychoanalysis for a generous array of errors, duplicities, fudged evidence and scientific howlers...
...shrine built to the original, as in 1990's unimaginative but impeccable reproduction of Fiddler on the Roof, or a piece of fey revisionism such as 1992's cartoon reconception of Guys and Dolls, which turned into the hottest ticket in town and helped spark this season's spate. Sometimes a revival is so extensive it's treated as new, like 1992's Crazy for You, a loose remake of the Gershwins' Girl Crazy, which won the Tony Award for best new musical, or 1993's Tommy, which shared the Tony Award for best score -- for music dating...
...Loeb production starts well. A monumental village plaza impresses the audience with its scale and ambition. The radical foreshortening of the town hall does induce a momentary spate of seasickness, but for the most part the set inspires confidence...
Many of the posters take jabs at the council, mocking its recent spate of troubles...