Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turista is not the average Woody Allen tourist comedy. It is always engrossing, but also enigmatic, for Shepard never defines his people. Who is mad? Is it the doctor, or is it the patient? Who is sane? The wife, the witch doctor, the Mexican-cum-American-cum-southern black slave narrator? The viewer is just not sure, nor can he be, given Shepard's own lack of clarity. In any case, the acting is top rate, with Jan Egleson excelling in his ability to switch accents and characters in a moment, and Roberta Collinge marvelous as the wife...
Perhaps it is the inbreeding, or their isolation, or both, that cause the peculiarities of their behavior. Or perhaps it was my naive eye that saw what was not there. The natives have a distinct style. A behavioral scientist might understand the manifestations of this style; a tourist can only let the impressions reflect and magnify in the back of his mind's eye. Is something special in the way children congregate around the big tree and roller skate on only one foot? Is something special when they swing their arms downward and slap spinning wooden tops...
Glimpses are all the tourist is allowed, and the intriguing hints are brief and inarticulate. But they are lasting. My thoughts have played with the natives' idiosyncrasies since my return. It is evident that they know each other so well that the simplest rituals of daily routine take on the meanings of generations of common experience...
Travelers to London, Paris and Rome, for example, can now lock in (with $2.95) on a current Pan American promotional gimmick: tape-recorded walking tours of the cities (each narrated by a properly accented guide), as well as taped auto tours of the French and English countrysides. The tourist willing to lug a cassette player around Europe can wander the highways and byways for hours, all the while picking up inside dope like Montparnasse was a refuge for struggling artists like Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald in the years following World...
...George McGovern's hope is that Edmund Muskie will have to take positions on controversial issues as soon as possible, Muskie managed to finesse one such challenge last week. While traveling through the Middle East, the Soviet Union and Germany, Muskie faced the usual problem of the political tourist: pleasing both foreign host and domestic constituents. In Egypt he hewed to strict neutrality...