Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power of celebrity in the modern age is sometimes astonishing to behold. But miraculous? In Europe rumors have circulated that a devout tourist had her prayers answered last spring and a doctor recorded the inexplicable recovery of a patient; both attributed the developments to the intervention of Princess Grace of Monaco. So now a handful of the Roman Catholic faithful are proposing Grace for beatification, a step along the road to sainthood. Committees to aid the cause are forming in Italy and reportedly in Philadelphia, her home town, and Hollywood as well. During a memorial service for the Princess...
...American tourist Samantha Smith still qualifies this month for "Newsmakers." She'll go back to school in Manchester, Me., the column reveals. "Officials say they'll ask her to talk about her trip later this year...
Back in the passenger cabins, by KAL's usual procedures the women flight attendants would now switch to native Korean dress. The bright and multicolored costumes include long skirts (chima) and short, flared blouses (chogori). They had orange juice and sandwich wedges on hand for the tourist passengers, fancy snacks of chicken florentine, zucchini au gratin, rice and cheddar croquettes, and soba, a Japanese broth, for the first-class travelers. Everything presumably would have seemed normal as the passengers munched and dozed their way toward Seoul...
...flipped a switch and Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was suddenly projected, in garish colors, on a ten-foot television screen. "But I thought the Mona Lisa was a painting," objected one astonished tourist. "Not any more," responded the guide. "We feel that if videotape had been around in Leonardo's time, he would have used it." The tour moved on. "On the next screen we have the fabulous Winged Victory...
East Germany, except at tourist facilities, West German broadcast news reaches millions of East Germans. The anti-American tone in much of the reporting would hardly seem to enhance the image of the West. But one prominent left-wing West German editor points out that journalism critical of the U.S., whether in print or broadcast media, may unintentionally make positive points about life in the West. Says he: "West Germany is in effect saying that we can criticize our big brother while they cannot criticize theirs." The editor sums up: "It is more interesting to report controversially. Our correspondents...