Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dusty-rose settee, two elderly ladies in Orion lace sweaters tell each other racist jokes and giggle. The attendant, who is black, has just unwrapped twelve rolls of toilet paper and is now dragging two huge bags of trash out the door. She passes an aghast English-speaking European tourist, who apparently expected Las Vegas to be more in the style of James Bond at Monte Carlo...
Fingernail maintenance seems to fill the hours women once devoted to straightening stocking seams and rolling pin curls. The ladies' room crowd admires a tourist, the owner of a nail shop in California, who reveals a gold nail set with diamonds on her left ring finger...
...when they all go overseas, they insist that their tourist spot be tourist-free, the better to experience the simulated authenticity of another way of life. To holiday is to go native, to be native-temporarily, of course...
Until the television program Dallas debuted in 1978, Dealey Plaza, the assassination site, was the most popular tourist attraction in town. Now the most popular place to see is Southfork, the ranch where Dallas is set. Fred Meyer, chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party, finds an offensive image here. "When the No. 1 tourist attraction is a fictional location of a fictional TV show," Meyer says, "that's a powerful argument that there is a lack of knowledge about Dallas" Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. wants to send forth a truer picture too. "There are places...
When the U.S. issues a travel advisory, it is usually to keep Americans from getting caught in war zones. Last week the State Department took the unusual step of warning U.S. citizens to stay out of Leningrad. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations and the home of the Hermitage art museum. The State Department said Americans may be subjected to "unlawful, arbitrary and unjustifiably embarrassing" behavior. The move came after an off-duty U.S. Marine consulate guard was beaten by six men and then arrested as he walked to the consulate at about...