Word: eiffel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...building, with sweeping vistas of the Pudong business district. LE CIEL DE PARIS, Paris Claiming to be Europe's highest restaurant, Le Ciel de Paris, tel: (33-1) 4064 7764, is on the 56th floor of the Montparnasse Tower and 209 m above the city center. Gaze at the Eiffel Tower far below, as you relish set dinners from around $50. NEW YORK GRILL, Tokyo If you want to see Tokyo - and be seen by Tokyo's great and good, for this is without doubt one of the most fashionable restaurants in the city - try doing it from the 52nd...
...films. After a two-month courtship with all the requisite A-lister ups and downs, TOM CRUISE, 42, proposed to Batman Begins starlet KATIE HOLMES, 26. To make it official, they held a joint press conference, which fortified romantics and skeptics alike. "It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven't slept at all," said Cruise, who has deflected speculation that the relationship is a publicity stunt. The future Mrs. Cruise the Third, who had posters of her fianc� on her wall as a girl, simply blushed and smiled. Clearly, both actors have committed to their...
...priced under $15; nothing on the dinner menu is over $20. The restaurant also includes a Pastry Bar that turns out a range of creations—from the traditional Vanilla Crème Brulee ($5.50) and Apple Tarte Tatin ($7) to the whimsical Gateau Petit Robert, a Chocolate Eiffel Tower...
...recognizable structure is what is now called the Atomic Bomb Dome, originally Hiroshima Prefecture's Industrial Promotion Hall, a sort of chamber of commerce building and exhibition hall in 1945. The remains stand just outside the point of the park, across the Aioi Bridge. This shell is Hiroshima's Eiffel Tower, its Statue of Liberty. Where the dome rose, only the supporting beams remain, a giant hairnet capping four floors of vacant gray walls, much of their outer skin peeled away, exposing patches of brick. The interior floors are also gone, making the entire structure an accidental atrium. A front...
...Eiffel Tower, Paris The innovative, vanilla-scented rink on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower may only be 200 sq m, but you can't beat the view. Overlooking the Champs de Mars gardens on the southeast side and the Seine on the northwest, skaters can glide over colored lights embedded in the ice from one panorama to the next. All visitors to the monument have free rink access, and skates can be rented in exchange for a piece of identification. Open until Jan. 23. First-floor admission, adults $5, children...