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...fact, Hollywood has been Bacharach's biggest promoter. The songwriter serves as a veritable totem of retro-cool in Mike Meyer's Austin Powers, in which Bacharach does a cameo singing behind a candelabraed piano that sits atop a Las Vegas tourist bus. His music is featured even more prominently--even if he isn't--in the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, providing for a younger generation the same kind of romantic charge, simultaneously nostalgic and bracingly fresh, that George Gershwin gave when he was rediscovered by the disco generation two decades ago in Woody Allen...
...activities office wait until the morning of the trip to notify us of the threat we posed to the entire island of Martha's Vineyard? Furthermore, if this is a sort of quarantine for us, why are the gates of Harvard open for the unsuspecting foreign tourist to contract measles? We can take the T into Boston, a thriving metropolis stuffed with people from all over the world-but we can't take a bus to the beach for fear of contaminating the Vineyard...
...things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...
Neither Bellenson nor Sasson spends any time in Washington. Sasson has been there twice as a tourist and once on business when he worked for Bechtel. "It reminded me of Rome," he says, meaning the pomp and not the classical beauty of its architecture. He adds that it "has no relevance to high-tech industries." Bellenson has been there a few times for conferences and "sensed it's a closed environment...I was struck by how oblivious they are to the conditions of the poor, though they work with the poorest of the country right nearby." Sasson describes himself firmly...
Motorists passing through Anadarko, Okla., see little more than a sleepy tourist trap of a town. What they are missing is what 20 lucky visitors (ages 6 and older) will see, starting July 6, when they join anthropologist Robert Vetter for a highly personal eight-day encounter with American Indians in the southwestern corner of the state. As he has for the past decade, in Journeys into American Indian Territory programs, Vetter will "bombard" participants with insightful interactions so they will learn about the culture of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Wichita, Caddo, Delaware, Cheyenne and Arapaho people of this region...