Word: bolus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paris than Pompidou. By a curious irony, the political consequences of this urge are what saved the Gare d'Orsay. Pompidou had ordered the razing and redevelopment of the vast central food market known as Les Halles -- Zola's "belly of Paris." The market, which had formed a bolus of stalled, honking traffic, was shifted to Rungis, near Orly Airport. In its place Paris received, among other things, a giant structure that looked like an oil refinery and was to be the biggest cultureprocessing plant in Europe: the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, otherwise known as the Centre Pompidou...