Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tyler's fiction had noticeably broadened and deepened; the cast of characters had grown more diverse, and the lives led by her people had assumed unmistakable moral dimensions. Then came the three novels that won her wide and deserved readership -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the Pulitzer- prizewinning Breathing Lessons (1988) -- in which the seams between the joy and pain, the comedy and tragedy of everyday existence became impossible to distinguish...
Branson, too rocky to grow anything but "kids and tomatoes," has long been a tourist town. It drew its early visitors as the setting of the sentimental 1907 best seller The Shepherd of the Hills, now re-enacted nightly in an amphitheater. Things picked up around 1960 with the opening of Silver Dollar City, a turn-of-the-century theme park, and Table Rock Lake, a fish-rich creation of the Army Corps of Engineers. At about the same time came a country jamboree called the Baldknobbers, named for a legendary vigilante group, and still a top attraction...
...also never be inside the Havana Club again: tickets can be bought only with dollars, and by law he is allowed to hold no more than $5 in U.S. currency, half the price of admission. A visiting tourist pays Juan Antonio's way, but he is worried his friends will label him a jinetero, or gigolo. He is also worried that the police will arrest him for consorting with foreigners, so he asks that his real name not be used. His paranoia is so pervasive that he finds it hard to believe he can wander the club floor without being...
...American Games, which began in Havana last week, have instilled a renewed sense of pride, but the headlong rush to develop tourist hotels that are barred to most Cubans has caused resentment. "We were born into socialism, but sometimes we feel we have nothing. We can't eat where tourists eat. We can't drink where tourists drink," says an angry 26-year-old at Havana's La Playita beach. "What would Marx and Engels say to that...
...Martin Luther King Jr. At first King's family dissociated themselves from the museum because of this macabre legacy, though Coretta Scott King relented and appeared at the dedication ceremonies in early July, receiving a $15,000 honorarium. Yet there remains something troubling about turning the Lorraine into a tourist attraction...