Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series blaring the city's crime problems into living rooms across the nation. But Miami Vice's success has quieted most of the naysayers. Miami officials estimate that the production contributes $1 million per episode to the city's economy, and the show may even be boosting the tourist trade. "I like Miami Vice," says Mayor Maurice Ferre. "It shows Miami's beauty." Adds William Cullom, president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce: "It has built an awareness of Miami in young people who had never thought of visiting Miami." Since its debut last September, Miami Vice has been...
...Gower of Morgan's Passing, Ezra Tull of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant), but none combined oddities as well as Macon Leary. His occupation, for example, is matchless. Would you believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers, Macon always feels the urge to shorten his itinerary and return home...
...chest and his elbows jutting out awkwardly like the wings of a baby bird." It seems appropriate that he should look the way he feels, until an old woman points out that he has been given her much smaller crutches by mistake. Elsewhere, life imitates sitcoms. The Accidental Tourist reluctantly takes a business trip to Paris. Muriel, uninvited, tags along; a tense Macon wrenches his back. When Sarah unexpectedly shows up to nurse him, he is forced to utter the book's bottom line: "This is not the way it looks...
Many cities are moving to cut down on crime. In Rome authorities are keeping a close watch on prostitutes who specialize in fleecing foreigners, while in Paris some 150 plainclothesmen are now mixing with crowds in tourist haunts. The Spanish tourist ministry has issued a leaflet with tips on avoiding muggings. Gearing up for next month's Oktoberfest, officers in Munich, who claim their city is Europe's safest, will be on the lookout not only for German pickpockets but for American miscreants. They arrest over a hundred U.S. citizens each year during the beery festival. The offense: drunk driving...
...Norway, and then in the early '40s passed through a series of British internment camps. The artworks and documents he left behind in Hanover were destroyed in an air raid. He suffered from epilepsy and strokes. His wife died of cancer. To support himself he had to do tourist views and kitsch portraits in the Lake District village where, at 60, he died. But he never stopped working, and what a friend called the distinctive "Schwitters aroma"--an amalgam of glue, flour paste and guinea pigs, the portable pets of his exile--followed him to the end of his days...