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...lure any kid away from a video game. Purists note that Lionel may not be all it once was, but the H-O gauge lines of Marklin and Roco, Lima and Liliput, chug as reliably as ever, and the large-scale LGBs, made in West Germany, could be the grandest toy trains ever. A starter set (about $330) with a steam locomotive and two passenger cars is a richly detailed invitation to further excursions that can be plotted from the elaborate LGB catalog, which is a real itinerary for dreaming...
...Gare d'Orsay, this building was once the grandest railway station in France. As the Musee d'Orsay, opening next week, it is now the world's best museum of its kind. Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive. The Musee d'Orsay is to this period what the Uffizi is to the Italian Renaissance or the Museum of Modern Art to the 20th century. There are some masterpieces it will never get, but as a discourse of objects from...
...important to realize that inherent in any language is its constant subjectability to change. No language, despite the grandest efforts, can resist change over time. Any perusal of texts from a wide variety of time periods will reveal this. No stage of a language is inherently superior to any other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language...
...life," said an 84-year-old woman, "Paris is a city under enemy occupation." Everywhere there were police and military troops, checking parcels, inspecting shoulder bags, patrolling public toilets. At entrances to shops, subways and theaters, uniformed officers demanded, "Your papers, please." Along the Avenue des Champs Elysees, the grandest of the city's boulevards, crowds were thin, and sidewalk cafes were half empty. Long, snaking lines at the cinemas shortened. Tables at some of Paris' most exclusive restaurants sat idle. Parisians, who normally consider the city's streets and cafes to be extensions of their apartments, were suddenly clinging...
...SCENE Bok was personally humiliated. His enormous university, at the height of its grandest celebration, was being held captive by 68 scruffy partisans. The former Harvard Law School dean--who once defused a protest there with bags full of coffee and donuts--was reduced to a state of helplessness in front of the most important alumni and faculty of the University...