Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave me a sense of function within the huge panorama that is London," he says. "It was better than going the usual tourist route or sitting in my apartment there watching TV," he adds...
...gift package the size of Massachusetts, this Central American country offers everything for the vacationer: sleeping volcanoes, shimmering lakes, lush countryside, Mayan ruins, a bustling, sophisticated capital, miles of unspoiled Pacific beaches and a revolution gracious enough to stay out of the prime tourist areas...
Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There. "I think Michael can be hurt very easily," Spielberg says. "He's sort of like a fawn in a burning forest." Jones watched Michael break down several times while recording She's Out of My Life for Off the Wall, and eventually just left the crying on the track...
...many of my friends in Berkeley, Calif, rummaging through trash for food comes naturally. I was one of the few who had a job and a place to stay--in a residential hotel which was cheap compared to tourist hotels, but expensive compared to an apartment. You pay by the week and share your room with an interesting variety of insects, and you can leave any time without losing a deposit...
Both are logical candidates for the post of musical director if Chieti, their birthplace in Abruzzi, revives the defunct town symphony as a tourist attraction. Francesco's desperation for the job is the more comically visible, and his wife (Giuliana De Sio) tries to advance his cause by sleeping with a town councilor. Less obviously needy, Andrea pursues the job with a worldly resignation that contrasts to good dramatic effect with his rival's cookie-tossing eagerness for it. Luciano Odorisio's Dear Maestro is not much to look at, but it is shrewd in its examination...