Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is my sixth visit to Israel, and I am amazed at your apparent prosperity. It seems that every flat has a TV, usually color, one and sometimes two cars, and other modern appliances." Few visitors to Israel would dispute that glowing report, which came from an American tourist in a letter to the Jerusalem Post. Highways are flooded with new cars. Shop windows are filled with food processors, freezers and videocassette recorders. At Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, long queues of vacation-bound Israelis wait to board flights for Europe and the U.S. Despite more than three...
Last year alone, 4.4 million pilgrims came from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The annual influx of visitors, which has grown by nearly 40% since 1966, has transformed Lourdes (pop. 18,096) into one of the busiest tourist spots in France. Only Paris and Nice have more hotel rooms. As the first reigning Pontiff to visit Lourdes, John Paul was also affixing a sort of Vatican seal of approval to a Catholic shrine that is controversial as well as popular...
Lourdes has long been the target of criticism from Catholics who are offended by the crass commercialism of the more than 700 religious souvenir shops, innumerable ice-cream parlors and other tourist businesses that line its narrow streets. Lourdes alarm clocks, fondue sets and cigarette lighters compete for shelf space with bottles of "Eau de Toilette a la Bernadette" (three scents), tin napkin holders depicting Bernadette and the Virgin, and plastic packets of "Lourdes Mints" guaranteed to be made from grotto water...
...arrival the Vatican issued a leaflet in defense of Lourdes' tourist traps, noting that while many criticize the souvenir shops, no one forgets to patronize them. In an even more direct gesture, the Pope visited the mayor of Lourdes and drove through the commercial district before proceeding to the 47-acre sanctuary surrounding the grotto (where vendors are prohibited). Said he: "Is not the city of Lourdes the place par excellence where the sick are really at home, with the same rights as the healthy, with services and facilities fully adapted to them?" Indeed, for all its tacky flash...
...political film by Director Costa-Gavrass (Z, Missing), she plays an American attorney turned Israeli citizen who takes on the controversial case of an Arab charged with persistently and illegally crossing the border into Israel. "It is an allegorical tale," says Clayburgh. Though she had little time to play tourist while filming in Israel, being virtually unknown there gave her a welcome escape from the pressures of fame. Says she: "It's especially nice in museums...