Word: elyse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christo Javacheff is a peripatetic Bulgarian whose art consists of wrapping things-big things. He has previously wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, a fountain in Spoleto and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. For Christmas, he would like to wrap all the trees on the Champs Elysées, Paris...
"Name me a leader in America today," demanded Congressman Adam Clayton Powell recently, and for once Powell may have said it right. Nearly everywhere, the places of power seem occupied by faceless and forgettable bureaucrats, technocrats or nonentities. "Charisma," one of the dominant clichés of the '60s...
Here would be the central "Street of Splendor," which would surpass the Champs Elysées in elegance. At the end of the street would be the new railroad station, more magnificent than Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. There would be the Führer Palace, with a reception...
BIT by bit, the successor to Charles de Gaulle has altered the grand designs of the Fifth Republic. In contrast to the general's no to British entry into the Common Market, Georges Pompidou seemed prepared to say yes under the right conditions. In place of De Gaulle'...
Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing decided on July 16 to devalue the franc. Only nine people in all of France knew of the impending devaluation. As far as France and the rest of the world were concerned, Pompidou was about to leave Paris on...