Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than any other of the islands (1,414,867 in 1978, up 12.5% over the previous year). Oahu (Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor) is seriously overbuilt and overcrowded; Hawaii ("the Big Island") is famed for its volcanoes and rugged natural beauty but has few beaches and little action for the tourist; Kauai has great, uncrowded, golden beaches and a lush interior but not much else; Molokai also has superb beaches, but only one hotel and an arid interior...
Everything in her life continued to be material for her writing. "I knew much more," she said, "when I was no longer a tourist to the world of work and the world of motherhood." Tillie stands among a handful of women writers who have taken motherhood and work as the central theme of their novels...
...happens), and communication equipment was installed to serve the official American party and the estimated 2,500 journalists covering the trip. To house the visitors, the government took over the entire 400-room Nile Hilton Hotel, forcing its infuriated guests to find other accommodations in the middle of the tourist season. Concerned about terrorists, authorities confined Cairo residents with radical backgrounds to their homes until Carter's departure...
...Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots who fear that uncaring foreigners might buy the island or that developers might transform its 2,000 acres of windswept pastures into a tacky tourist mecca...
...musical On the Town. The story begins as Claude (John Savage, of The Deer Hunter), an Oklahoma farm boy, arrives in Manhattan for a final day of liberty before induction into the Army. Like the World War II sailors of On the Town, Claude plans to take in the tourist sights, but he is quickly seduced by more hedonistic pleasures. Falling in with a tribe of long-haired dropouts, he soon discovers countercultural drugs and politics. Thanks to a whimsically funny plot twist, he also falls in love with Sheila (the voluptuous but innocent Beverly D'Angelo), a debutante...