Word: enlivenment
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...specific, high-quality projects are presented in the months to come. There are signs they would. Françoise de Panafieu, the fiery mayor of the upscale 17th arrondissement and an unyielding Delanoë critic, says she's always thought that a nice big building in her neighborhood could enliven the grim ride from the airport into the city. "We're not going to take just any tower," says Panafieu. "We need one like a jewel." That's what everyone says, of course. But Paris, where tall buildings have too often been carbuncles, deserves nothing less...
Besides, even the most arrogant of Yankees has to admit that Boston fans are the best in professional baseball. They pack Fenway Park for nearly every home game and enliven the stadium with heavy drinking and waves that circle the park at least dozen times a game. Years of deserving to win but having victory snatched away again and again have united the city behind its home team. When the Yankees win, their fans can sit back, their innumerable insecurities temporarily squelched by the sheer athletic power their millions of dollars can muster. But when the Sox win, Boston fans...
...remain standing so I can look out the window easily. The tops of buildings fly by. It always impresses me how many people have made the effort to get onto the roofs to send messages to the train passengers. Graffiti—often large, colorful and elaborate—enliven the tar-covered surfaces of the building tops. “Put the Christ back in Christmas,” reads one framed poster placed atop a roof. It has faced the tracks for as long as I’ve been riding...
...classics concentrator, Watson has been studying Latin for nine years. His senior thesis examines the Roman orator Cicero’s use of comedy to enliven audiences...
...nonactor named Martin Compston, he's not exactly handsome, but there's something about his spirit--wit and energy and an often comical inventiveness. Given a break or two, he could have become, you imagine, one of those rough-hewn entrepreneurs whose rags-to-riches stories so enliven capitalism's history...