Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convincing enough that we're willing to buy Jewel tickets, or dig a fallout shelter, or buy a round trip to Tahiti. Bad math notwithstanding, Americans are remarkably blase about Y2K. "Sarah, Plain & Tall," whooped "Y2K: The Movie" before Thanksgiving. Millennium-themed advertisements are almost universally regarded as lame. And even as Y2K computer problems are beginning to surface--people in Philadelphia have been getting jury notices for service in February 1900--there's not much excitement over the impending milestone...
...millennium crowd, and some trips have been booked for two years, reports Ian Buckeridge, editor of a magazine published by the British tour operator Cruise Line. Prices are 15% to 20% above last year's. His company touts the Silver Seas line, which has two millennium excursions around Tahiti in the $25,000 price range. Thanks to the international date line, the South Seas will be awash in ships. "Because," says Buckeridge, "in theory you can get in three different New Years." Date-line dodging presumably offers insurance against a disappointing first bash...
...bring a bunch of swimming suits. One is okay, but you'll find that Cambridge is not exactly Tahiti. Resign yourself to the fact that you will never be as tan as your best friend who attends that prestigious university on the West Coast...
...daily wave forecasts at a charge of $1.50 to those who call its 900-976-SURF hot line. So accurate are Collins' forecasts that two years ago, bodyboarding champ Mike Stewart used them to surf waves spawned by a single storm across a distance of 7,000 miles, from Tahiti to Alaska...
...goes vividly public with her trauma and plays the story out in the media, turning her shame not only into triumph but into revenge. Thus Nicole paraded her drama all over national television last week. Broken dreams make you a star. The contemptible non-groom was holed up in Tahiti, where the honeymoon was to have been. The louse did not get to the beach much, because a cyclone blew up in the Pacific. Nicole's image filled the electronic air--the dancing martyr, the New Woman...