Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking forward to winter is his philosophy. But that is too simple. A flatlander who finds one of us sunk in gloom at the beginning of July, fossilized by dread of winter, may think that he has understood the New Hampshire soul. This is not likely. What the tourist is almost certain to miss is that the New Hampshireman may not be wrestling with the prospect of the winter immediately ahead. "Aye-yuh," the foresighted backwoodsman is thinking, "summah's about petered out, and then we got six-seven months uh wintah, guess we'll make it, just...
...London one avoids Westminster Abbey and heads in stead for the Earl of Burlington's eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of one's way to avoid being seer in the Piazza San Marco . . . Each tourist center has its interdicted zone: in Rome you avoid the Spanish Steps ... in Paris the Deux Ma gots and the whole BouF Mich area in Nice the Promenade des Anglais in Egypt Giza with its excessive!} popular pyramids ... in Hawai Waikiki. Avoiding Waikiki bring! up the whole question...
...says Russell Rosen, manager of the Best Western Buccaneer Inn resort motel in Naples, Fla., by way of describing the biggest change in tourist travel patterns since Americans began flocking to the then inexpensive delights of Europe in the postwar years. From the manicured streets of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., to the beaches of Nantucket and Cape Cod, the U.S. is playing host this summer to an army of overseas visitors that is expected to rise 19% above the 1979 level to a record 8.2 million people. While the ranks of such visitors have nearly doubled in the past five...
Whatever preconceptions the American tourist had about Moscow began to disappear almost on arrival. I had been told there was no place in Moscow to sit. I was also told that the prostitutes chalk their prices on the soles of their shoes, so they could rub off the evidence by scuffling along if the police turned up. "Ten rubles and up," my seatmate on the plane had informed me. "They sit in the parks and lift their shoes to you as you pass...
...Actors Guild strike shut down the set. (If the strike lasts much longer, the Dallas season premiere may be postponed; Lorimar has filmed pieces of a dozen episodes, but not all of any one.) For six weeks, thousands of Dallas addicts turned the actual Southfork Ranch into a Texas tourist attraction second only to the Alamo. The neighbors threatened to sue, but Southfork Owner Joe Rand Duncan, a wealthy land developer, was delighted with the publicity: he plans to sell clumps of the hallowed turf...