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Which of the following rates after the Eiffel Tower and Orly Airport as France's biggest tourist attraction...
...land at Orly, tourists are only 14 miles from the heart of Paris. But before they depart for the city, they might do well to look around. If they do, they will discover why 3,200,000 people came to Orly last year, a million more than visited the Eiffel Tower-not to fly, but simply to sample the charms of the world's most exotic aerodrome. For Orly is a city in itself, a Gallic city with all the appropriate accouterments...
...Cinemathique is followed by a panning shot of Paris taken from the Cinematheque across the Seine to the Eeffel Tower. This shot introduces one of the important themes in the film and in the Nouvelle Vague movement-Paris and Parisians. Stolen Kisses is punctuated with unmistakable Parisian landmarks-the Eiffel Tower, the Musee du Cinema. Sacre Coeur a Parisian cafebar a street-cleaning car early in the morning -which serve constantly to remind the viewer of the setting...
ALREADY the Land of Plethora, Las Vegas last week reached a new pinnacle of preposterousness. Two huge new hotels flung open their doors within the space of 24 hours, to the accompaniment of a 21-gun promotional salvo. "In France, it's the Eiffel Tower. In India, it's the Taj Mahal. In Las Vegas, it's the Landmark," boasted TV spots for Howard Hughes' 476-room Landmark Hotel, whose qualifications for uniqueness include "the world's longest swimming pool" (240 ft., shaped like a hot-water bottle) and the only high-altitude casino...
...damaged property-a valuable piece of the plaintiff's anatomy-to a French girl named Claudine Perot. During filming of the movie Secret Paris in 1964, Claudine, who was then only 17, allowed a tattoo artist to decorate her buttock with a full-color rendering of the Eiffel Tower. Under the contract, the tattoo belonged to the moviemaker-Ulysee Productions-which probably wanted it for publicity purposes. Accordingly, Claudine had it removed by surgery and gave it to Ulysee. This year, older and a little wiser, Claudine brought suit against the company. Ruling that the studio had taken advantage...