Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade, an American in Paris has been an endangered species. Because of the steadily declining dollar, romance atop the Eiffel Tower-or whatever else might take a tourist's fancy-has been out of reach to all but the most stratospheric budgets...
After several seasons of extraordinarily high prices, Americans in Denmark will get a break. The dollar has appreciated 22% against the krone, while prices at tourist-oriented hotels and restaurants have risen only 5%. A new service for tourists is Dan-menu, a standard two-course Danish meal in many restaurants in Copenhagen and elsewhere for about...
...much to hope that the invention will offset "the box"-the 20-lb. chromed stereo radio that thickens the air of so many American cities with noise pollution. But the mini-stereo makes possible a silent revolution indoors. Denis Ilkovics, a Belgian tourist, bought one in New York for his 13-year-old daughter. "I hope she'll use it instead of those loudspeakers," he sighed...
Forget it. That kind of scene may get by-marginally-in the movies, but at ECM Records it would be considered strictly for the tourist trade. There is a sort of house high-seriousness about all the diverse jazz on the ECM label. For its sessions, one must attune one's mythic misconceptions accordingly...
...York itself: "It is beautiful and hideous, tender and violent, generous and greedy, fascinating and horrifying. New York is the image of the whole continent. Contradictory, profound, lyrical. . . it is the most electric city in the world." The authors add that your visit will be "more than a simple tourist trip, it will be a decisive stage in your maturing...