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...necessary to demolish the city's past in order to define its future. A step toward protecting those confectionary creations was taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that has fallen on hard times. The ordinance requires a six-month waiting period for a permit to raze any building within the area, thereby giving preservationists time to find a way to save them...
Meanwhile in Genoa, some terrorists were receiving at least some punishment. Six jurors and two judges ordered less than the maximum sentences for several of the Palestinian terrorists charged in the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of U.S. Tourist Leon Klinghoffer out of sympathy for their youth and the plight of the Palestinians. Though the prosecution sought a life sentence for Youssef Majed al Molqi, 23, who was accused of killing the wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer, the court sentenced him to 30 years...
...Tourists on Thailand's idyllic Phuket Island, where more than 300,000 visitors annually enjoy palm-lined beaches and seaside restaurants, were hard put last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...
...reduce idyls. And as soon as a new last paradise has been found, so many people hurry to make claims on it that it becomes, almost instantly, a lost paradise. With crowds of strangers flocking together to escape the crowds, last year's lotus land becomes this year's tourist trap...
...like Flower Day, 1925, is consciously hieratic in its symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there can be no doubt that in his hands, at least, it was a powerful union...