Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Young Turks on the head, telling Picasso, for instance, that the two of them were the greatest artists of their time, "You in the Egyptian style, I in the modern." This gnomic utterance can only mean that Rousseau identified "modernity" with the salons: it was official speech, like the Eiffel Tower...
...Think of the Eiffel Tower...
Rather it is the crepe-suzette thin plot that seems so unfamiliar. A kind of 1958 American version of a 1920's Parisian romance revived for a 1984 audience, Gigi seems doubly foreign today: its Paris treats the Eiffel Tower practically as a suburb of Maxime's; its romance treats women as...well, this is not the time for a discourse on social history...
...noisiest liberalization is a controlled cacophony emanating from the more than 800 private radio stations that crowd the FM radio band. Their size varies from that of Radio Service Tour Eiffel, a 1,500-watt operation that is indirectly backed by Paris Mayor Chirac, to Radio Panorama, operated by a baker and his wife with a 500-watt transmitter in their garage in suburban Vitry-sur-Seine. The private stations have taken an estimated 20% of the audience away from the five established, and at least partly state-controlled, stations that monopolized the air waves until 1982. Surveying everything from...
...funny sequence from a short article entitled "Depth Advertised," from his book. The Eiffel Tower, Barthes summarizes what American Advertisers have made of the sale of detergent...