Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be: The aquarium, the largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos, especially those created by Peter Chermayeff of the Massachusetts-based architecture firm Cambridge Seven, the Columbus and Da Gama of aquarium design...
...receding into the blurry background of my visual field. So I dart into action, slipping behind the far side of University Hall in hopes of heading them off at the John Harvard statue. And sure enough, by the time I get there they've already joined another smattering of tourist in front of Cambridge's answer to the Mona Lisa...
...asks where I'm from, and, incredibly, in no time at all we're knee-deep in small talk. Soon it becomes apparent that he thinks I'm a tourist, but it's not worth interrupting the flow of our conversation to correct his impression...
Then he will make a side trip to the inland city of Xi'an in mainland China to see a popular tourist spot--the excavations of an army of terra cotta soldiers buried by the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century...
...legendary tryst still awaits those who missed their chance. The videos available in College libraries, despite seniors' nostalgia, are not "free" but rather part of an annual $30,000 cover charge, which is somewhat more expensive than membership at most video-carrying public libraries in America. Boston and its tourist attractions aren't going anywhere...