Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tourist: Where is the Sacred White Crocodile? Little Boy: He come Friday 2 o'clock. Tourist: Then why is the tour on Wednesday? Boy: 'Cause, Master, that's when the big tour ship come. [Pause.] But if you give me shilling, maybe crocodile he come...
...Stockholm. At Yundum's terminal, things get hectic, for the building is only 40 feet by 20 feet. Still, officials of Gambia Airways (which has clerks and baggage handlers but flies no aircraft) cope magnificently. Once tucked into one of Gambia's three hotels, the tourists head for the beaches. The weather rarely presents a problem. If one millimeter of rain falls during the day, the tour operators will pay each tourist $200, half the price of the packaged two-week stay. So far, they haven...
...Gambia-a minuscule former British colony with 316,022 people and 340,000 head of cattle-the tourist business represents what may be the country's only chance to diversify its peanut-based, peanut-size economy. The locals catch on fast. As soon as the tourists arrive, bar, food and taxi prices zoom. The Atlantic Hotel charges an extra $1.50 a day to turn on one's room air conditioner and 50? for a daily shot of mosquito spray. Toast for breakfast? One must make a personal request to the manager...
...tourist who has had enough skinny-dipping, there is always the tour of the Pool of the Sacred White Crocodile at Bakau. On a recent Wednesday, one Swede reported the following dialogue...
Antonioni makes quite sure that the thought isn't lost on the viewer. His unwieldly assortment of stereotypes and caricatured life-styles pounds out the message too heavily to be maximally effective. The police sergeants are pig's pigs, the passing midwestern tourist hops out of his souvenir-decalled camper with his fat, snorting wife and a brownie box camera, and no less fiery a militant than Kathleen Cleaver chairs the student meeting. And after enough contrasts of clips of gorgeous desert scenes interspersed with unbelievably Orwellian visions of the supercorporation (they used tanned mannequins, plastic-grass golf courses...