Word: tourisme
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...most imposing symbol was the Eiffel Tower, erected when Robert Delaunay was four years old: now a venerable cliche of tourism, but to Parisians then the tallest structure on earth and a cathedral of modernity. "The Eiffel Tower is my fruit-dish," Delaunay liked to say, in a dig at cubist still life. From 1909 onward, he painted it at least 30 times: close up or on the skyline, seen from above or below, aggressively sharp or half-dissolved in mists of color, broken, dislocated, twisting upward, a veritable Tower of Babel. No painter had dealt with this emblem...
...ratification of Soviet post-1945 territorial gains, Moscow and its allies had to pledge, among other things, increased East-West cultural and human contacts. Cultural exchanges have indeed burgeoned, as measured by the rising East-West traffic in groups involved in sports, art and other fields, and tourism within the Soviet Union is being expanded. But Western scorekeepers fault the Soviets in other areas, notably human rights, including the treatment of political dissidents and would-be emigrants. Although the Kremlin has cut the price of emigration visas by onefourth, to 300 rubles ($405), and allowed some dissidents and relatives...
...through most of the week, as it increasingly appeared that the skyjackers would get their way. Clearly exultant was Minister Without Portfolio Gideon Hausner, who declared: "We have again provided the whole world with an example of how terrorism could be resisted and should be resisted." Exclaimed Minister of Tourism Moshe Kol: "We have to do the impossible...
...islands' paradisiac features -notably its unspoiled beaches-have attracted a growing number of tourists. Last year 35,000 flew into the $14 million jetport on the island of Mahe. Although tourism has already replaced copra and cinnamon as the islands' source of foreign exchange, the President is determined that the Seychelles will not become "a nation of waiters." Says Mancham: "We have learned our lesson from the overcommercialization and human pollution that have spoiled much of Tahiti and the Caribbean. Here, no hotel will be built higher than a coconut palm." Viewed from such modest heights, the future...
...Prime Minister's supporters concede that the economy is in a shambles. Unemployment is running at about 22%, and is particularly high among urban youth, who police say are guilty of most of the recent murders. The country's foreign exchange earnings, principally from bauxite, sugar and tourism, are down 40 to 60% below last year's total of $400 million, and reserves have dropped from more than $102 million in November to less than $38 million. Wealthy Jamaicans have illicitly exported perhaps $200 million abroad; some of the currency has been smuggled out in fake cigarettes...