Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Bowyer, head of Cambridge's Department of Planning and Development, worries that the character of the Square may change, turning into that of a tourist center...
...target of at least a dozen previous assassination attempts. At week's end, though, it was not yet clear which of the Sheik's many enemies had taken their revenge, or whether the assassination would lead to another period of prolonged violence and factional infighting on what tourist posters used to describe as the "Clove-Scented Isles...
Must I Undress? Inevitably, the tourist falls sick. At the doctor's, he is likely to complain of "a poisoning, a noseache, an eye-pain or quinsy," followed by a plaintive "Must I undress?" The best remedy may be fresh air. How about a tour of an American farm? The Russian is naturally interested in the workings of the capitalist agricultural system. "Is this a private windmill?" he asks. "What are the peasants in the county chiefly preoccupied with...
...takes newcomers to L.A. months to find it there, and some people never do. At first the tourist feels totally lost and vulnerable, especially on the freeways: great, wide, whooshing things, marvelously engineered so that they average 15 m.p.h. faster than the weather-beaten, relatively narrow roads that pass for throughways in the East. But then, if he stays for a while, the newcomer gradually comes to look forward to going off across town, to the rolling barrios of East L.A., on up through brown hills to green Santa Barbara, knifing through the Santa Monica mountains into the flat maze...
Even if he hasn't been able to assimilate India's culture, the country still fascinates him. In talking about it he sounds like some philistine American tourist marvelling at the wonders of England. "Benares especially intrigued me. You really had a sense of a civilization having been there for thousands of years." In India, too, he met his future wife, who had been sent with an assignment to photograph Michael. "We have an excellent marriage; she has subordinated her profession to mine, that's why it works so well." Michael York had not been in America long enough...