Word: tours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIOMEDE ISLANDS, RUSSIA AND THE U.S. A Stroll Across The Date Line With snowshoes, adventurers will walk between the islands --$12,000 for the tour --3 signed...
There are economic reasons for some of these millennial disappointments. Predictions of widespread, money's-no-object revels were just that--predictions, of an event that hasn't occurred since the airplane was invented, the Crusades gave way to package tours and Dick Clark was soldered together in a top-secret government warehouse. So proprietors aimed for the stratosphere and whiffed. Hotels supersized their room rates; tour operators assessed $1,000 cancellation fees; property owners in New York City and Miami put up their pads for sublet at five-figure rates (few takers, so far); British star chef Marco Pierre...
...People are a lot harder to scare today, cause we know that our eyes play tricks on us," one of the young boys informed me. These kids have been raised on R movies, much as I was. The Sixth Sense gave them a scare, but a guided tour around Washington Irving's estate just wasn't going...
...otherworldly. But I figured if what I needed was instruction in how to scare myself out of my wits, whom better to turn to than a group of impressionable youths that still believe in the boogieman? But as it turns out, it takes a lot more than a tour through Tarrytown to scare third graders...
...thought there was going to be ghost stuff popping out of the floor," another said of the tour, with a slight tinge of disappointment. I guess I had as well. But, it seems that for that kind of fun, I will have to shell out my eight bucks, buy some popcorn and settle into those movie theater seats to see what kind horror film Tim Burton has made...