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...festival square" where an infernal wind whips across an artless expanse of concrete. More of that? No thanks, say many Parisians. "Do we really have to leap into an infantile contest of verticality with other world cities to see who has the most beautiful and biggest?" asks Jean-François Blet, a Green member of the city council. "The tower is the symbol of the international banalization of the urban landscape, liberal globalization applied to architecture...
...memory of so many bad buildings has made a lot of Parisians almost pathologically opposed to more. "The very idea of building in Paris is seen as wrong and condemnable," sighs Paris architect Bernard Reichen. After the Tour Montparnasse went up, mayor Jacques Chirac and his conservative successor Jean Tiberi figured they had rightly read the public will by keeping a strict limit on building heights. As Blet and other opponents of towers point out, the height restrictions haven't cut Paris off entirely from architectural innovation: consider Jean Nouvel's glass-walled Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) along...
...prime candidates. Some architects have argued that well-planned high-rises can help reconnect Paris to its suburbs, now cut off by the belt highway around the city proper. "Of course Parisians say they're against new tall buildings when the question is posed in the abstract," says Jean-Pierre Caffet, the deputy mayor for urban development. But he hopes that minds will change when 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...
...cause of a plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said France would do everything it could to help Egypt find out what caused the fault. A report Sunday said Flash Airlines was banned from flying to Switzerland after safety shortcomings were detected during a routine check at Zurich airport in October 2002. Impasse AFGHANISTAN U.S. and U.N. officials...
...comic writing, The New Yorker had the edge with (to choose four names spanning seven decades) S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Bruce McCall and Steve Martin. But I had a fondness for Playboy?s comedy stars - Jean Shepherd, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce, Arnold Roth, Shel Silverstein - in part because I?d followed and loved their earlier work from, respectively, WOR radio, Mad, the Village Voice, Fantasy LPs, Humbug and Look. They were the guys I?d have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece...