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...female vocals and synthesized, mechanical beats. Fun to dance to, it sounds a bit like disco music, but is constrained by the formulaic construction of the songs. You won’t hear much of this music if you go to a reputable club. Think Spiller, Basement Jaxx, or Eiffel 65 (“I’m blue, a-ba-di a-ba-dai”) and you’ve got Eurodance...
Landmarks, and vanquished landmarks in particular, have a unique power over the public’s conscience and imagination. Hollywood clearly knows this; in the past, it has packed theaters with people eager to see the destruction of the White House and Empire State Building (Independence Day), the Eiffel Tower (Deep Impact), and the Statue of Liberty (Planet of the Apes). At a time when our fascination with such images must be harnessed in order to memorialize a real-life disaster of epic proportions, Hollywood is instead eliminating those images from view. Doing so is a mistake, one that misinterprets...
...things in Las Vegas are actually meant to be there. Not the ersatz Eiffel Tower at the Paris casino, not the white tigers from India that frolic nightly with Siegfried and Roy, and certainly not the lush residential lawns that grow emerald-green year round in the desert region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with...
...Paris-bid officials took 18 ioc members to dinner at the Jules Verne restaurant, on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, for an estimated...
...someone who had acrophobia, I understand how a person can be afraid of things that most others don't find threatening. I beat my acrophobia by riding on roller coasters and going to the top of the Eiffel Tower. I confronted my fears. This may not work for everybody, and it took a long time to have the guts to do it. But I decided that I wasn't going to live my whole life with my phobia. To others with phobias, I say, Don't let such fears control you. You deserve better. ADRIAN M. GONZALEZ GUERRA Monterrey, Mexico...