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Among them was Boston's Sara White, who has vacationed in Europe 22 times and maintains, "The excitement never dims." Rome's Leonora Dodsworth found accosting unknown tourists a daunting experience, made more so by the fact that many visiting Americans no longer wear such distinctive raiment as Hawaiian shirts and polyester pantsuits. Says she: "Now you have to move in close enough to eavesdrop and identify their speech." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, whose desk has been piled with tempting brochures for British holidays, confesses "frustration at writing about tours rather than going on them. So come...
...travel in foreign countries is more than the sum of its parts. It is a matter of cumulative exposure to the unknown and the unpredictable. To be successful, a trip abroad takes work, adaptability and patience, all very American characteristics. Americans may in fact be the world's most successful travelers, seldom-in the 1980s at least-evincing the faults of isolation, but showing an openness to experience at all levels. Consciously or not, knowledge is what they bring back along with the Koda-chromes and fishermen's sweaters: knowledge and the overriding memories of good times...
LIKE THE WORK of P.D.Q. Bach, The Name of the Rose is supposedly the long lost manuscript of an unknown, in this case an unknown monk. Nor does the comparison end there: like its musical counterpart which combines serious composition with more popular and humorous melodies, this book presents accurate history, philosophy, and semiotics in the form of a good old mystery novel and one not entirely devoid of humor at that...
...Music, by stars like post-punk Adam Ant (Goody Two Shoes) and Boy George (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?), unknown to most people over 30, is moving millions of adolescent feet. Indeed, all pop music, from heavy metal to soul, is sharing in the revival. Poly-Gram Records Executive Jack Kiernan notes that the recording studios are booked solid again, a sign of long-term stability. Says he: "We're spending for the future...
...debt-ridden and desperate KROQ in Pasadena, Calif., broke the bland playlist. Its new format: then unknown bands like Britain's Duran Duran and the rockabilly Stray Cats (both now megagroups). The reversal was quick. When Berlin's Pleasure Victim played on the station, a surprising 25,000 copies were sold locally. Now KROQ is the No. 1 rock station in the large Los Angeles radio market. Says then Program Director Rick Carroll, who now advises ten other stations on strategy: "I sensed that there was a big audience out there looking for something of their own. Music...