Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIFFICULT work. Oftentimes, duty obliged me to enforce laws that I did not believe were constitutional, such as the federal regulation prohibiting personal firearms on airplanes. But it did have its rewards: one day, while searching a jet recently arrived from Tibet, I unrolled a hassock to find a large man-like creature covered head to foot in matted hair...
Sometimes an Eden is brought down by the quite literal invasion of the real world, as even the most faraway places get placed in the sights of the superpowers. Tibet was stormed by the Chinese, and now the dreamed-of Shangri- La is vanished forever; Cambodia was caught in a cross fire, and an earthly paradise so gentle that ricksha drivers were said to tip their passengers is now a land of skulls; Afghanistan was overrun by Soviet tanks, and now a book of photographs remembering its fugitive beauties is subtitled, mournfully, Paradise Lost. In an age when airlines...
...seems that there is no place on earth too remote to have a McDonald's restaurant, a Coca-Cola bottling plant or a Holiday Inn hotel. The Memphis- based Holiday Corp. lodging chain said last week that it had agreed to manage Tibet's ten-month-old Lhasa Hotel, a 500-room, $30 million complex...
...added that Berton, in exchange for posing as the pitcher who harnessed his spiritual powers and blazing fastball in the remote mountains of Po. Tibet asked only for tickets to the Mets Cubs home opener in Chicago and two Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendars...
...them pass. But one of them was not what he seemed. French Anthropologist Michel Peissel had disguised himself in garb like that of his two local guides, staining his face with walnut dye in order to enter a region long forbidden to foreigners: the Dansar Plain of "Little Tibet," the no man's land of a legendary tribe known as the Minaro...