At 2:04 PM -0700 8/21/02, Erika Meyer wrote: > > >Isn't there a name for that, when the royalty tours thru a town and >governments cart out all the ruffians and fix everything up to look >lovely? It seems like Russia (and later USSR) was famous for that >kind of thing. Potemkin Village? http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0597811.html I think that's what you want. bob -- bob davis bob at bobdavis.org http://www.bobdavis.org/