Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report praises Cambridge for its complexity and diversity, calling it "second only to Boston in terms of Massachusetts tourist attractions," but chides the city for not having an information center. The nonprofit organization will, among other services, provide walking tours given by high school students and develop and revise guides to the city...
Down on the floor of the Sistine Chapel, it is winter tourist business as usual: the slow, noisy shuffling of packed bodies, as in a stockyard whose animals are all looking to heaven; the cricked necks, the bellowing guides, the august patterns on the remote ceiling. Up on the scaffolding, where the restorers are at work, things look quite different. The noise has receded; it is more like a hum of bees. The frescoes have moved forward, monopolizing one's whole field of attention, swollen, enormous in their intensity...
Leonard excels at this sort of corner-of-the-mouth satire. His research sometimes sticks out, but he has a perfect ear for punk talk, a hungry eye for sleaze and an eerie ability to get inside empty heads: "This ocean was different, the tourist believed, than the ocean up in New Jersey. Though it must be the same water because the oceans were all connected and the water would get different places." Madame Bovary on the boardwalk could not have said it better...
...members simply ambled in on Sunday, Jan. 20, two hours before they were scheduled to serenade President Reagan at his private Inauguration ceremony upstairs. If only they had arrived in hup-two-three-four formation, Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes suggested last week, guards might have spotted the stray tourist tagging along with the Marines. "Had he been out of step," Speakes said with a smile, "they would have caught him earlier...
There are negative aspects, though, besides the work. Most of the people in the tourist industry are not so friendly as the researchers would have like them...