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...sacrament-until the Red Brigades horn in on the action and the $4 million ransom money. The hero in the end is il Papa, a man of great energy, guile and charity. When it is not delivering adrenal suspense, Duane's book can double as a tourist's guide to offbeat Roma...
...than any other of the islands (1,414,867 in 1978, up 12.5% over the previous year). Oahu (Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor) is seriously overbuilt and overcrowded; Hawaii ("the Big Island") is famed for its volcanoes and rugged natural beauty but has few beaches and little action for the tourist; Kauai has great, uncrowded, golden beaches and a lush interior but not much else; Molokai also has superb beaches, but only one hotel and an arid interior...
...hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants (some 10,000) as it did in the 1840s, whaling's heyday...
Everything in her life continued to be material for her writing. "I knew much more," she said, "when I was no longer a tourist to the world of work and the world of motherhood." Tillie stands among a handful of women writers who have taken motherhood and work as the central theme of their novels...
...musical On the Town. The story begins as Claude (John Savage, of The Deer Hunter), an Oklahoma farm boy, arrives in Manhattan for a final day of liberty before induction into the Army. Like the World War II sailors of On the Town, Claude plans to take in the tourist sights, but he is quickly seduced by more hedonistic pleasures. Falling in with a tribe of long-haired dropouts, he soon discovers countercultural drugs and politics. Thanks to a whimsically funny plot twist, he also falls in love with Sheila (the voluptuous but innocent Beverly D'Angelo), a debutante...