Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improve his German vocabulary and doing research and development for a sequel to a recent article on beer commercials. When last seen, Chase was muttering a German phrase, roughly translatable as something unprintable. Jeff Wise will reside in Manila, supporting either Marcos or communist insurgency by knocking over tourist bingo games. Andrea Monfried will sojourn to Greece and promises to spray paint "Bono is God" on the Parthenon. And Mimi Sheller will slip down to Mexico to buy drugs. As usual, I'm staying here to do all the dirty work for a hopeless bunch of miscreants. Oh well. Until...
...ORLEANS IS SINKING AT THE rate of one inch every year. The city is built over hundreds of feet of soft black mud, deposited there, over thousands of years, by the Mississippi. The mud comes from the Midwest, all the way uup to Minnesota, along with the tourist hordes who contribute their dollars and their considerable collective weight to the city's inexorable descent towards Australia. When we were there, mind you, most of the buildings were still very much visible. The locals, for their part, seemed unconcerned about the dreadful fate awaiting them in just a few brief moments...
...having been reused. The practice is not uncommon in American Chinese restaurants. Those who are sensitive to MSG (monosodium glutamate) have an even more difficult time, for that flavor enhancer is virtually ubiquitous. The only solution would be to order Western food in advance in the dining rooms of tourist hotels...
Many American visitors are insulted when they are directed to the private rooms or segregated sections of dining rooms; they feel an attempt is being made to separate foreigners from locals. Yet there appears to be genuinely hospitable planning behind the division. In addition to being cleaner, tourist sections provide menus with English translations. Nevertheless, foreigners who insist on being seated on the lower floors will...
Since his own views seem largely unchanged by what he encounters, the tourist is unlikely to change the views of his readers. Those who share his assumptions will be reassured by his brief; those who do not will be outraged by it. His book is most compelling when he leaves politics behind to examine the Caribbean-flavored Atlantic coast. There, old black women shake their hips to reggae rhythms, and a dreadlocked poet reflects, during an incessant downpour, "In the old days, if Somoza told the rain to stop, it stopped. I don't know what's wrong with these...