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...York Pride, a nonprofit promoter of civic activism, says surveys show that visitors increasingly cite such enduring city icons as crabby cabbies and snarling salesclerks as serious arguments against a return visit. Rickman's response: the Civility Campaign, an effort to make New Yorkers a little more pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURISM: Who You Callin' Rude, Bud? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...than happy to take your money. The Cable Beach casino has $2 blackjack tables in the afternoon, and the Paradise Island casino imports dealers from the British Isles who smile and chat nicely when they give you 21. It doesn't feel so bad to lose money in such pleasant company...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: When It Really Is Better in the Bahamas | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

...these days. Traveling from East to West has become so commonplace that nobody, not even the border guards, pays much attention. Yet as recently as a year ago, entering that stretch of plowed frontier was an offense that could bring death. Until last year the East German guards, today pleasant and unarmed, carried automatic weapons and had orders to shoot anyone trying to escape to the West. Until the mid-1980s there were mines and trip-wire-triggered automatic guns, and even now the zone may not be entirely safe. "Stay on the footpath," Schubert warns her youngest son, Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Came From the People. | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

CITY (CBS, Mondays, 8:30 p.m. EST). Valerie Harper's new series is a pleasant surprise: a savvy comedy about a municipal troubleshooter fighting city hall from the inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Feb. 12, 1990 | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...wrong. Job interviews are not pleasant. But neither is Frank's Oriental Fish, and nobody buys books about that...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No-Nos of Job Interviews | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

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