Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SURPRISING that the characters in Anne Tyler's latest family portrait, The Accidental Tourist, suffer from "geographic dyslexia." Like her usual cast of eccentric homebodies, members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...
...Continental Hotel, on the Reforma, Eva Hernandez, a Costa Rican tourist, was staying in Room 930. "It started to shake," she said. "We ran out of the room. We ran down the stairs and we ran and ran. The building was falling all around us. Rocks were falling on us. My roommate fell and her pajamas were torn off, but we kept on running. Now there is nothing there, where we were. Nothing." The hotel's top two floors had collapsed, spewing debris onto the boulevard below...
...visiting British couple, John Meeus and his wife, spoke of the quake with British understatement. They were staying at the Galeria Plaza Hotel in the Zona Rosa neighborhood, Mexico City's popular tourist area. "I was having a cup of coffee in bed when my hand and the cup started shaking," Meeus said. "I looked out of the window and saw a building collapse. I turned to my wife and said, 'I think we've got a slight earth tremor...
...Accidental Tourist brings Tyler up to date: girl leaves boy, boy keeps house. Macon Leary's unassertiveness is in timely contrast to Sarah's decisiveness and Muriel's zeal. Ethan's violent death is right off the 6 o'clock news. Even Macon finally proves conspicuously contemporary by taking charge of his life. The move seems a bit too abrupt for a character whose susceptibility to drift has been so carefully established. But this is a minor disappointment in a novel animated by witty invention and lively personalities, including Edward the feisty corgi, whose bite is just...
...might be expected, reservations at Jamin should be made at least six to eight weeks in advance. Like many proprietors of popular Paris restaurants, Robuchon tries for a balance between French and foreign customers, roughly a fifty-fifty split. "Nobody likes to be in a 'tourist' restaurant," he explains. What nobody seems to mind is the $30 to $90 check for dinner, which includes food and service but not wine...