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...attention to social suffering, like all the artwork in “Living with Too Little,” the artists inevitably run the risk of trivializing deep-seated issues and romanticizing the gritty reality of poverty and homelessness, turning the experience of human suffering into a sort of tourist attraction complete with bleeding-heart sentiment. This problem is inherent in Maria Termini’s “And Please a Dream,” inspired by Termini’s encounters with homeless people in our own Harvard Square. A series of computer-generated drawings accompany lyrics...
Sulca works in a medium still considered by his countrymen more a tourist craft than an art. Gordon C. McCord ’02, Sulca’s adopted son, says that his work has a better chance for serious consideration in the United States and Europe than in Peru...
Penang's snake temple has a problem. The deadly pit vipers that have made this Chinese Taoist temple their refuge since the 1850s have, according to a tourist brochure, "mysteriously" disappeared. "One day they just stopped coming," says the temple's custodian. We are standing at the back of the shrine where the view, which once stretched over the vipers' nesting grounds to the mountains beyond, is now blocked by a semiconductor plant. "Yes, it's a mystery," he says, with a wink and a nod toward the factory...
...streets of Vieux Lyons are connected by closed alleys called traboules. Originally just shortcuts up and down the hill, traboules were also used by silk merchants to store their wares and by the Resistance during World War II. Most are privately owned but open to the public - the city tourist office provides addresses and door codes. You can traboule (the word is also a verb) all over Vieux Lyons - the longest passage traverses five houses between 54 rue St. Jean and 27 rue du Boeuf...
...month's presidential election - but excluded the Swedish head of the team and representatives from Britain, Denmark, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands. The acceptance of observers was a key condition laid down by the E.U. if Zimbabwe is to avoid sanctions on its leaders. Authorities also denied that the tourist visa granted to E.U. delegation head Pierre Schori had been withdrawn but warned him not to make more political statements...