Word: touring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS SUMMER I paid $2 to tour a restored plantation in Atlanta. White girls in puffy pastel hoop skirts fluttered around the giant Master's mansion, answering questions about the European art and furnishings...
...only white on the crowded bus to work, and one of the few on the new, efficient subway system. The Paul Simon Graceland Tour, despite its amazing Black South African performers, drew an almost completely white audience. Both Blacks and whites visit the Six Flags amusement park. But during a day there I saw only two mixed groups. It was the same at the city's Lenox Square shopping mall...
...anger zone. Last month bikers were banned from hiking trails in California's Santa Monica mountains. In St. Louis, where a motorist has been known to slosh a bucket of water on a cyclist in cold weather, someone sprinkled tacks on the route of a Labor Day cycle tour and flattened the tires of some 40 bikes. Motorist-biker tensions around St. Louis grew high last month after Bicyclist John S. Reif Jr., 22, a nationally ranked triathlete, was fatally injured in a head-on collision with a car. Speaking of the current mood, Deeds Fletcher, 47, a municipal-bond...
Wearing a stylish pinstripe, double-breasted suit, Roald Sagdeyev, the director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, began by disarming the group of Cornell astronomers during a recent U.S. tour with a folksy story about a Russian woodsman. Then, in a voice strained from singing When the Saints Go Marching In to Soviets and Americans gathered at the Chautauqua Institution, he discussed the dangers of nuclear weapons and the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars. Finally, the trim, 5-ft. 8-in. physicist, who rarely drinks and never smokes, concluded with his vision for a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R...
...Tour of Duty, CBS's ambitious Viet Nam series, should have been smarter and better timed. This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin...