Word: eiffel
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...celebrate the Normandy landing. But Hu Jintao, the colorless Chinese autocrat, who has turned back the clock on democratic reforms, was given a greeting during a Parisian state visit last year fit for an American president, the Pope, and the Dalai Lama rolled into one. For four days the Eiffel Tower was lit red. France, also heavily invested in Sudanese oil, joined with China in publicly rejecting American calls for international sanctions against Sudan...
...heating bills than of depression supposedly linked to lack of sun. Franco Rolandi, who runs the only café nearby, says the scarce heat from the mirror isn't the point. "This town is heading for extinction. We need to do something," he says. "Remember when they built the Eiffel Tower? People said, 'What's the point?' Now look at Paris...
...ultra-stylish Wallpaper City Guides brazenly skip the well-trod tourist spots to instead focus on what interests the authors: iconic architecture, hot shopping venues, glamorous hotels and the hippest clubs and restaurants in 20 design-conscious cities. The Paris guide won't help you locate the Eiffel Tower, but it will show you how to find a dozen of Le Corbusier's architectural gems...
...screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life is being narrated by the voice of British novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson).Needless to say, it’s a rather upsetting situation, especially when Eiffel announces Crick’s “imminent” death. From there, the plot proceeds predictably as Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course, bag the girl...
...surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...