Word: tourisme
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...half-dead sea -- was created by these painters and their followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their invention of it, gave modernism its one practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...
...ingratiating enough to make Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) a man for all box offices. After topping E.T.'s record take in Australia, this shambling comedy (directed by Peter Faiman) filched $8 million its first U.S. weekend. Hogan is already familiar to TV viewers as the roguish spokesman for Australian tourism. Now, flashing his smile and a brisk "G'day" to Manhattan's snobs and pimps, he could parlay Dundee into a network sitcom. Let's see, he's adopted by four Harlem grannies...
...drive to Vermont seemed longer than it really was, perhaps because we really didn't know where we were going. The tourism board gave complex direction: Route 30, Route 11, Route 73, Route 75, Route 119. Endless routes...
Stop at this small city, find a winding, narrow road to a quaint town, drive across the covered bridge, turn around, find more foliage. There are apple picking orchards in West Brattleboro, in Bellow's Fall, in Grafton. That's what the tourism board told us, but by the time we got to Vermont, it was difficult to decipher my handwriting and keep my eye on the road at the same time. And the phone number for Francis Miller Orchards was busy when we called...
...Dundee earned $8 million last weekend to become the nation's hottest film. Its name is Paul Hogan. Who, you ask, is Paul Hogan? He's that guy who volunteers to "slip another shrimp on the barbi for 'ya" in those wildly successful ads for the Australian board of tourism. He is also the creator, co-writer and star of "Crocodile" Dundee, and, without a doubt, its greatest asset...