Word: eiffel
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...flaming torches illuminate the building's neoclassical facade. Those who want to skip the rink can enjoy hot chocolate or mulled wine and watch the fun from the viewing platforms overlooking the ice. Open until Jan. 30. Adults $21, children $11.50. tel: (44-870) 166 0423; Somerset House, London 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...
...urge to go higher is as old as the Great Pyramid (482 ft.). Or the Washington Monument (555 ft.). Or the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). Is Osama bin Laden any match for our deepest impulses? "The skyscraper seems to have even more power now as a symbol of modernization," says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the school of architecture at Yale University. And from the point of view of environmentalists and regional planners, tall buildings are the best alternative to suburban sprawl and the best means of getting more people and businesses into a smaller footprint on the ground, putting...
...five-member Team America (whose three males all look like Kurt Russell after being dipped in a tank of Botox) has noble impulses but lousy aim. Chasing Osama bin Laden look-alikes in France and Egypt, the team members inadvertently blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Sphinx and several pyramids. They need a recruit to get inside the terrorist mind, and who better than Gary, a Broadway actor? While Gary infiltrates the insurgents, North Korea's kooky dictator, Kim Jong Il, is making worse mischief. He dupes Alec Baldwin and other leftish members of the Film Actors Guild...
...robes,” someone suddenly shouts from off screen, “put down the WMD and get on the ground! You’re under arrest.” All hell breaks loose, and as bullets fly, buildings explode and the Eiffel Tower topples onto the Arc de Triomph at the hands of a misfired American bazooka, we are introduced to the good looking men and women of Team America...
...smoked cod), smoked salmon with artichokes and a fruit dessert. That will set you back j80 per person, but it comes with a tiny mother-of-pearl caviar spoon. The only disadvantage to al fresco eating?other than possible bad weather in autumn?is uninvited guests. Near the Eiffel Tower with my daughter recently, a well-spoken but disheveled man approached our picnic and asked if we couldn't spare "a piece of bread, some salami and that piece of cheese over there." We made up a plate and threw in some melon to boot. After all, we were reminded...