Word: tourister
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Developers appear confident the economy here is booming. But real estate development has some longtime Square watchers concerned about the future of New England's second-most popular tourist attraction...
...fact, Hollywood has been Bacharach's biggest promoter. The songwriter serves as a veritable totem of retro-cool in Mike Meyer's Austin Powers, in which Bacharach does a cameo singing behind a candelabraed piano that sits atop a Las Vegas tourist bus. His music is featured even more prominently--even if he isn't--in the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, providing for a younger generation the same kind of romantic charge, simultaneously nostalgic and bracingly fresh, that George Gershwin gave when he was rediscovered by the disco generation two decades ago in Woody Allen...
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia: An American flag has been burned and a court order has been distributed. But the Alaska-bound ferry Malaspina loaded with American tourists remains hemmed in by a tiny armada of Canadian fishing boats at Prince Rupert. The vigilantes are protesting Alaskan catches of the premier salmon as they swim toward Canada. Since quota negotiations between the neighbors collapsed last month, the Canadians say, their Alaskan counterparts have taken far more than their share of the prized fish, threatening to put the Canadian fishermen out of work. That has stirred up some memories. "Canadians have learned...
...Gianni Versace and four other men, may be working his way down a hit list of people, motivated by revenge, the FBI said today. To prevent further bloodshed, the agency was interviewing Cunanan's friends to determine who should be warned. But solid new leads are sparse. A Brazilian tourist's reported photo of Versace and Cunanan together at a party just days before the fashion designer's slaying actually shows neither of the two men. Although it is not clear whether Cunanan knew Versace, an acquaintance of Cunanan's reportedly told the FBI that the suspected killer...
...activities office wait until the morning of the trip to notify us of the threat we posed to the entire island of Martha's Vineyard? Furthermore, if this is a sort of quarantine for us, why are the gates of Harvard open for the unsuspecting foreign tourist to contract measles? We can take the T into Boston, a thriving metropolis stuffed with people from all over the world-but we can't take a bus to the beach for fear of contaminating the Vineyard...