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...turning point in the city's development. Not only did the $100 million bash turn a profit of $500,000, but it endowed the city with many permanent buildings, including the Cultural Center and the Space Needle, a spidery, 607-ft. structure that is Seattle's Eiffel Tower...
...Tallin, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and others to create, during the first years after the Soviet Revolution, the only radical art of the 20th century that meshed with radical politics. Tallin's unbuilt tower, the monument to the Third International, was greeted as transcending more bourgeois spectacles like the Eiffel Tower. It was the incarnation of struggle: "For the first time," a critic exclaimed, "iron rebels and wants to acquire its own artistic form!" El Lissitzky's marvelous series of Proun paintings, with their intersecting planes and crystalline forms, were like Utopian landscapes, referring to Russia's industrial...
...sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose," at other times dwarfed by flower bouquets...
...level canal required far more voluminous and difficult digging in mountainous Panama than had been necessary in the Middle Eastern sands. Few of the celebrated French engineers De Lesseps invited to inspect his plan approved it (among the doubters: Gustave Eiffel, the tower builder). The doubts were soon borne out: in 1889, De Lesseps' company went bankrupt. By that time, the French had moved 50 million cubic meters of earth?two-thirds of the amount moved at Suez. In the process, some 20,000 workers died of malaria and yellow fever (whose causes were thought to be noxious jungle vapors...
Actually, the structure has been notably accident-free, apart from about 380 suicides. But there have been fears about the tower from the start. It was designed by Bridge Builder Gustave Eiffel in a competition for the Paris Exposition of 1889, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution (among the losing ideas: an oversized guillotine, a giant garden sprinkler poised over the city). There were dire predictions that the structure would attract lightning and somehow kill all the fish in the Seine. Builder Eiffel displayed his disdain for doomsayers by working and entertaining guests in an apartment...