Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skyscrapers that deface the ancient skyline of Jerusalem, the pornography found in its theaters, the garish nightclubs-all are the result of rapid Western industrialization under Israeli rule. Jerusalem must not be treated as just another tourist attraction like New York, Holly wood or the French Riviera. To their credit, the Israelis do protect the religious places. But it is not merely individual shrines that are sacred; the entire city is holy. An internationalized Jerusalem governed by a commission headed by the chief religious leaders of Judaism, Christianity and Islam would spare the city from further secularization...
...away from somebody else." Almost every publisher faces a rival whose territory stretches to within a town or two of his own. Second, many of the new arrivals are affluent and thus are enticing to advertisers; many others are elderly and loyal, lifelong readers of newspapers. Third is the tourist trade, which in smaller markets can augment circulation by as much as 30%. Fourth is a tradition of operating papers as public institutions, not just money-making machines, set by the late owners of the two biggest and best Florida dailies, John Knight of the Herald and Nelson Poynter...
Chia's bulgy operatic figures pose like Michelangelos and flourish their tiny daggers at frantic women. He will take a tourist postcard view of the Grotta Azzurra in Capri, render it big, add a floating Chagall girl upside down, add a few written phrases in the manner of '20s Mird, and title the whole pasticcio thus: In Strange and Gloomy Waters If a White Dot Shines If a Child Jumps I Will Approach Her Flight, 1979. Chia's visions may not be very deep, but nobody could accuse him of having a defective swizzle stick...
...about 800, devotees can buy $2.50-plus croissants stuffed with everything from fruit preserves to ham, cheese and even beef bourguignon. "I was just looking for a cup of coffee and a doughnut, but I ended up with coffee and an apple croissant," said Stephen Fudge, a Canadian tourist in San Francisco. Added his enthusiastic companion, Susan Wood: "I'd take a chocolate croissant over a Big Mac any time...
...Southern California, they have practically begged the swallows to return to Capistrano, where the birds are a big tourist attraction. But the central California city of Fairfield (pop. 58,000) has for three months suffered an almost Hitchcockian invasion of birds. Starlings, perhaps 200,000 at one time, have chosen to winter in a local eucalyptus grove. Major Hal Biestek, a pilot stationed at nearby Travis Air Force Base, lives close to the grove, directly under the starlings' flight path. "It was so loud," said Biestek of the birds' chirps and screeches, "it kept us awake at night...