Word: visitores
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...From a visitor's point of view, the greatest change involves the 192-step walk up to the top. The old enclosing stair tower was replaced by a more open spiral, and the statue's copper interior has been illuminated. As a result, the upward passage through the dramatic, Gaudian space is now at least half the fun, intriguing and slightly mysterious...
...each of the women, the trip to Alaska's Portage Glacier marked a beginning and an end. There on Memorial Day, Louisiana Democratic Congresswoman Lindy Boggs and Pegge Begich dedicated the $8 million Begich-Boggs Visitor Center, a memorial to their husbands, Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs and Alaska Congressman Nick Begich, who together perished in a plane crash in the area while Boggs was campaigning for Begich in 1972. Lindy Boggs had come, on the anniversary of her husband's death, not only to open the center but help Begich campaign for the seat once held by her husband. Begich...
...mere presence of visitors, moreover, inevitably strips perfection of its most distinctive blessing: its innocence of self-consciousness. As soon as Eden is told that it is Eden, it becomes something else. These days every Arcadia is tempted to regard itself as a potential commodity, and paradise is less often lost than remaindered. The visitor to Nepal, which was long known as the Forbidden Land and closed to foreigners until as recently as 1951, can now stay comfortably at the Hotel Eden in Katmandu. Just around the corner, he can dine at the Paradise Restaurant or the Earth's Heaven...
...slammed shut right behind him. A paradise is by its nature a fine and private place, a deserted island or a solitary glade; Adam and Eve would have seemed considerably less charmed had they been surrounded by squawking kids, knickknack vendors and a row of time-share condos. Every visitor hopes to keep his idyl to himself; he's in heaven, and hell is other people. "The place is a Utopia," he's likely to tell his friends, "but there's no point in your going there. I saw it pristine, but now it's spoiled forever...
...houses, things were very different. The doors to rooms in North House bear mute testimony to the old way of life. On almost every door hangs a 6-in. hook, which, legend says, young Radcliffe students had to use as a door prop whenever they had a male visitor. After all, no young lady could have her door closed with a man in the room. Today, male and female North House students pry the hooks off their doors as mementos of a bygone...