Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even considering the inflationary atmosphere in and around high-priced New York City, $237 is a lot to pay for a taxi ride. When British Tourist Mrs. Margaret Morgan, 71, landed at Kennedy Airport and took a cab 30 miles to Woodbridge, N.J., she was somewhat astonished at the driver's tab. But "he was a big fellow," said Mrs. Morgan, so she handed over all her money, borrowed another $150 from the cousin she was visiting to pay what should have been a $35 fare. Mrs. Morgan's story hit the newspapers, prompting help from a wholly...
...from the concept of community Local shopowners and businessmen have abandoned the Square in the face of skyrocketing rents and stepped-up insurance rates. In their stead have come more restauranteurs, ice cream vendors and bankers--all of whom cater to a transient population like that which swarms any tourist stopover of the Library's stature. Moreover, ownership of non-Harvard property around the Square has transferred from the hands of several local residents and estates to those of a scarce few who put profit and volume above concern for Cambridge residents...
Indeed, the average tourist sees little of the new violence. This is still not a place where the fear is outwardly visible, where pedestrians always look over their shoulders and where guns can be seen all round. The tension is more felt than seen. It is an atmosphere reminiscent of the stories of Joseph Conrad -the sense of unease and some vaguely threatening danger that broods amid the lushness of the American paradise. Or as one continental put it, of a growing "unwanted unfriendliness...
...turn from the gone-but-not-forgotten Goon Show of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. From the Goons, the Monty Python crew learned how to raise nonsense to dizzying heights: a filmed cabaret act of two brothers who play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These goonish concepts are executed with...
...Queen has no more devoted subject than the American tourist who plumps into his stalls seat with the indelible conviction that, as advertised, he is in "the theater capital of the world." The choice is wide, and seats, by Broadway standards, are both reasonably priced and easily obtained. When it comes to aesthetic caliber, the argument that all things dramatic are invariably ordered better in London than in New York City seems to contain as much myth as substance. British theater is often more impressive in bounty than in boldness, more remarkable for its solid reliability than for any comet...