Word: eiffel
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...rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate the source of the voice: that of reclusive novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), whose current project is a book, about an I.R.S. agent named Harold Crick, called Death and Taxes. Harold fears that when she completes the novel, he'll die. Which is fine by Hilbert, a great admirer of Eiffel. "You have to die," he tells Harold. "It's her masterpiece...
...very hot - summer's night in Maputo's train station, and nobody's going anywhere. And that's just the way they want it. On a flatbed train car, under the latticed arches designed by Gustave Eiffel, Ghorwane, a local band that have been fusing African rhythms with politics since the early '80s, are shaking up a cocktail of sweaty fans. It's buzzing, but it's not full - not everybody in Mozambique's capital can afford the $6 door fee at Sr Mfumo Jazz Bar (formerly Chez Rangel). Most people still get by on just $40 a month...
...PARIS Founded on the Left Bank as Paris' first department store, the Louis-Auguste Boileau and Gustave Eiffel-designed Le Bon March? boasts a breathtaking ground-floor food hall, La Grande Epicerie, tel: (33-1) 4439 8100. This is the place to procure everything from Alsatian foie gras and p?t?s to Breton sea salt and artisanal honey from Provence. Grab a top vintage or exotic aperitif in the wine-and-liqueur department, then head to the fresh-produce section for your pick of the juiciest Charentais melons, gourmet cheeses (200 types) and much more...
...opening on June 25; just five days before, Nouvel will be at home in Paris for the inauguration of another major work dedicated to what he calls "selective dematerialization." He has taken a prime parcel at the heart of the city, along the Seine at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, and artfully hidden a world-class museum in it. His Musée du Quai Branly is perhaps the most radical expression yet of Nouvel's self-proclaimed pride in being "an architect of context." Its northern face, shielded from the road along the Seine by an immense transparent...
...selections alongside the Italian, German or French fare. Choose your sashimi or sushi, get some kimchi on the side, and then head over to nearby Hong Kong Park for Asian alfresco dining. Paris Founded on the Left Bank as Paris' first department store, the Louis-Auguste Boileau and Gustave Eiffel-designed Le Bon Marché boasts a breathtaking ground-floor food hall, La Grande Epicerie, tel: (33-1) 4439 8100. This is the place to procure everything from Alsatian foie gras and pâtés to Breton sea salt and artisanal honey from Provence. Grab a top vintage...