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Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...
...most white South Africans don't share Beckett's foresight. As a colored (mixed-race) concierge whispered to a tourist. "They've got a revolution under their noses, and don't even know...
...into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments. But the camera never wanders too far from Matthau and Clayburgh, as they duke it out over everything from dirty films to women's rights...
...months in Ireland, first rooming in a Dublin club and meeting many of the people "I'd always wanted to know," and then cycling throughout both the North and the South. "You could do it at that time in a way you couldn't now--there were no tourists, and almost no traffic. And though the accomodations were often far from what the Tourist Board would recommend, it was a terrific way of getting to know the country and the people." In the years since, Kelleher has visited Ireland 12 times. "I'm always very happy and occupied while...
...large man in uniform entered with a pistol in his holster. He was the chief bodyguard of the dictator of Guatemala. Looking around the room he saw Jane and said, 'That's the one I want.' The students tried to protest. 'This is a tourist,' they said. The proprietor offered him one of the other women. 'No,' he said, 'I want that one.' The prostitutes sneaked Jane into a back room and got her out of a window into an empty lot behind the brothel. She would say nothing to Paul...