Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rogers used to sell maybe 20 lobsters a day and now serves 50 or 60. The tourist season has stretched from three months to six months, the crowds thinning somewhat in fall but not the cash flow. He diagrams his business with a salt shaker (Mastercard) and a pepper shaker (American Express). He switches the salt and pepper to represent the change after Labor Day. Family people in summer use Mastercard, older people in fall use American Express, "and they spend more, so I tend to believe people using American Express have more to spend." Rogers loves all the business...
...into the Pacific, and the city becomes a meticulously ordered metaphor of anxiety. No one has ever painted this allegedly laid-back town in this way before; and after seeing Thiebaud's disturbing images, it is hardly possible to see the place in the same way again. Whether the tourist business will thank him for it remains a moot point...
...Seeking Susan, After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing New York Air tells the folks from Des Moines about. As the camera pans...
Still, the family hope is Macon, a Princeton graduate and best-selling author of a travel guide series called "The Acccidental Tourist." Tyler's wonderful irony describes how, in spite of the successful career he has built living out of hotels, Macon hates travel, especially to anywhere foreign. A true American tourist, he distrusts the exotic. Hungarian paprika makes him sneeze; his taste consistently tends toward American which, to his xenophobic mind, means the assurance of safety, the familiar: home...
...admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler's complex ironies offer no easy solution to the quest for home. Rather than bringing him neatly full circle back to familiar territory, Macon's odyssey leaves...