Word: tiltin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy, red-faced "Bwana Mkubwa" (Big Boss), his bored, flirtatious wife and a long line of naked natives with rifles, cook pots and bathtubs balanced on their heads. A more accurate vision is apt to be somewhat less theatrical. Outside Nairobi's new circular Hilton Hotel (the "Tiltin' Hilton"), a gaggle of middleaged, middle-class Americans clamber into a zebra-striped minibus. Whisked off to a government-operated park, they spend the day shooting everything that moves-with cameras. On the way back, they stop to shop for souvenirs: Masai warriors' spears (forged in Birmingham, England...
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