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...Border. Rosalita's glass roof creates the impression of dining under the stars. A live mariache band, (a great asset if you want to impress a date), the hot-pepper Christmas lights and the Corona-bottle salt and pepper shakers altogether transport you to a tastefully-done Mexican tourist trap...
...AIDE TO FLORIDA GOVERNOR LAWTON CHILES, ON WHY CHILES WORE A BULLET-PROOF VEST WHILE TOURING THE SITE IN MIAMI WHERE A GERMAN TOURIST WAS MURDERED
...September 1981, Abouhalima was granted a visa to visit Germany as a tourist. It was a good time to leave Egypt. Earlier that month Anwar Sadat had arrested some 2,000 Islamic intellectuals, clerics and fundamentalists who opposed him. One week after Abouhalima departed, militants killed the Egyptian President. Meanwhile, in Munich, Abouhalima sought political asylum, claiming that he faced persecution in Egypt because of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist party that was then facing a harsh crackdown...
Just one week after the killing of a German tourist, Florida residents were stunned by the murder of a British visitor, the ninth foreign tourist to be killed in that state in the past year. At a highway rest stop outside Tallahassee, Gary Colley, 34, was shot to death and his female companion wounded by attackers who demanded money. Two teenagers, one just 13, have been arrested. A third is being sought...
...after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name-brand superstores. The goal is not a "themed" simulacrum of honky-tonk diversity but the real thing. Such a splendidly oxymoronic turn: a municipal code for discouraging tastefulness, a quarter-billion dollars spent to conjure a trashy Damon Runyon spirit. The Bizarro...