Word: eiffel
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...accord. That includes the subway contract, which went to Diandino Pe�a, who is Fern�ndez's biggest financial supporter. "Transparency is an evil word here," says Kevin P. Manning, president of the local American Chamber of Commerce. Fern�ndez has likened the subway to Paris' Eiffel Tower, which also faced opposition...
...Prime Minister addressing the press pack outside his famous front door. Another bonus: a ride on Chelsea's trendy King's Road before reaching the last stop in Fulham. Cost: $2.60. Journey time: about 60 min. Paris: The No. 69 bus takes you along the Seine from the Eiffel Tower to the historic Marais district. After sampling the sights of the Boulevard St. Germain, one of the world's most elegant shopping streets, enjoy the Marais' narrow streets and renovated mansions, much in vogue now among the Parisian in crowd. In the Rue des Rosiers, sample some of the capital...
...world's largest indoor ski slopes, featuring fresh powder year round? While flying in on the stylish, state-owned Emirates Airlines, you might notice the artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree or the 56-story Burj al-Arab hotel, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, built like a billowing sail. Westerners are welcome, along with their vices. Europeans in bikinis mingle on the beach with Muslim women in abayas; alcohol flows freely at Dubai's nightclubs and resorts. With events like the Dubai World Cup, a horse race with a record $6 million purse, Dubai draws...
From a room looking out onto the Eiffel Tower, Galison wrote that he is drinking “about 10 times more coffee than is good for me” while working as a visiting professor at L’Ecole Normale Supeieure and L’Ecole des Mines...
...constricting clothes of the day, stroll, picnic or fish. Rousseau omits no unromantic detail: railway bridges, factories, chimneys, piers. In the stormy View of Malakoff (1908), telegraph poles and cables arch over houses, trees and passersby. Sometimes the sky is a background for hot-air balloons, biplanes, the Eiffel Tower, even zeppelins, as in Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child in Boy on the Rocks (1895-97) resembles a stuffed toy perched uncomfortably on some small mountain peaks...