Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...copy of The Night Manager, John le Carre's new novel, closed on one dust-jacket flap at around page 300. Vacationing in Hawaii, just after her triumphant visit to Japan, just before a grueling few weeks in Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton might have been just another tourist...
...offbeat experience as soon as the first character appears, sporting an elephant's head. This is Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers and self-aware enough to be deeply...
Back to Broadway is full of songs that are crafted to stand the test of time -- and to some extent already have. Streisand's voice glides through Johnny Mandel's elegant orchestration of Some Enchanted Evening like a glamorous tourist passing through the lobby of a grand hotel. She follows that up with a no-frills version of Everybody Says Don't (from Anyone Can Whistle) performed as an unabashed, up-with-people showstopper. When Streisand hollers, "I insist on miracles, if you do them/ Miracles -- nothing to them!" a listener is compelled to believe that this amazing woman...
...Harvard Square has become a really tourist kind of environment. I think it's a real danger," Williamson said, noting the trolleys full of tourists who come to gawk at the Square and its inhabitants. "We're being turned into participants in a fishbowl experience...
Enter the pillared Quincy Market building and your nose will be assaulted by a million appetizing odors-fresh lobster, pot pies, egg rolls, empanadas, pizza, fudge brownies and more. The food court houses more that 20 stalls from which even the most finicky tourist can choose a tasty meal...