Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north, in Grand Junction, Colo., floods broke a dike and prompted the evacuation of more than 1,300 residents. Downstream, hundreds of houses and businesses in Arizona and California river settlements were flooded, and vital tourist business was badly crimped. "This is a man-made disaster, and there's no excuse for it," says Sandy Fields, owner of the Castle Rock Shores Resort in hard-hit Parker, Ariz. "It's just plain stupidity...
Excerpt "Painter Richard Lindner said of himself, 'I am a tourist everywhere, which means an "observer." ' Once the emigre rec onciled himself or herself to this position as observer, life became too interesting to lament that if one was a tourist everywhere, one was at home nowhere. Erich Kahler did not learn English until he was close to 50, yet he wrote many works in that language. In 1954 Kahler received a note from his fellow Princetonian the matchlessly resilient Einstein about the persecution of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Einstein understood the American's predicament...
...money is pouring into the country too. Two weeks ago, Xerox officials announced they would be spending $100 million to $150 million on a new manufacturing plant for small copiers, which will be exported to the U.S. Sheraton will build five more hotels to take advantage of the new tourist boom. Americans are now rushing to Mexico to bask in the sun and pick up bargains with their strong dollars. A Japanese consortium is ready to start work on a new 700-room hotel in Mexico City...
...Palais did afford increased seating for citizens of Cannes, who contribute a third of the festival's $1.3 million annual budget and reap many more millions of tourist dollars. The gentry could be generous to films from abroad, including Martin Ritt's U.S. entry Cross Creek, a dewy-eyed swamp drama starring Mary Steenburgen as Novelist Marjorie Rawlings, and Carlos Saura's dance film, Carmen. But for the four French films in competition-Jean Becker's One Deadly Summer, Patrice Chereau's The Wounded Man, Jean-Jacques Beineix's The Moon in the Gutter...
...Mussolini's twelfth in power and Hitler's first. On the boat from Naples to the island, the young anti-Fascist asks himself: "Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?" At that moment his eyes lock with those of a German tourist, a teen-age girl who transfixes him with a pleading, desperate look. Lightning strikes. The girl, Beate, is accompanied by a husband as wickedly repellent as a German sketched by George Grosz. Beate later tells Lucio: "My husband horrifies me; his hands are stained with blood...