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...terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture, and off those, on the upper level, more galleries for painting and decorative arts. This axiality was compared, by critics who saw it in the model or not at all, to the Maginot Line or perhaps the Valley of the Kings -- a set for an Italian production of Aida. Not so: it mediates beautifully between the almost incomprehensibly large space of Laloux's vault and the scale of one's own body. It retains all that was most benevolent in beaux arts grandeur...
...unacceptable," says Dr. David Greenblatt, a clinical pharmacologist at the New England Medical Center. Lie detectors are also frequently attacked as inaccurate, and Montana Congressman Patrick Williams has gathered 160 co-sponsors for a bill that would bar private employers from using them. "These gadgets are an electronic Maginot Line," says Williams. "They don't add to actual security...
...challenges Schumpeter's argument that change is the essence of modern economic life. Horsepower gave way to steam power, and vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors. Industries decline, while others grow. No nation today can isolate itself from those changes if it hopes to remain economically competitive. The Maginot Line did not protect France in 1940, and no economic Maginot Line will protect the U.S., now or in the future...
...Thatcher government welcomed the Weinberger proposal and promised "urgent consideration." The response came against the background of a speech, approved by Thatcher advisers, in which Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month compared the Star Wars program with France's Maginot Line, the vast defensive wall designed before World War II as a means of protecting France against a German invasion; when the test came, the line proved useless. Howe also raised questions about the effect of Star Wars on the Western alliance's policy of nuclear deterrence and the possibility that a project of such magnitude could...
...called Star Wars plan calls for the development of space shields and weapons to destroy oncoming missiles and enemy satellites--an intergalatic Maginot Line that would, in theory, render an opponent's arsenal impotent. The prospect of militarizing space was sufficiently jarring to bring the Soviets back to the table after they stormed out of talks more than a year ago. The Administration, though, insists, at least officially, that it is determined to press forward with its plans regardless of negotiations...