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...word twice on the same day. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen was called to the Quai d'Orsay and informed of France's intention. In Washington, dapper French Ambassador Hervé Alphand gave the cold slap to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. The French government, said Alphand, considered it necessary "to fill the void" left by the Sino-Soviet dispute by accepting "the reality" of China...
...narrative. Time at times turns rubber in his hands, and images live a violent private life; even Welles has seldom matched the visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker...
...Bowles, president of the College Entrance Examination Board. With himself as dean, he rounded up such trustees as Director Ian F. Eraser of the American Library in Paris. For a campus, the American Church in Paris contributed its neo-Gothic Activities Building on the Seine-side Quai d'Orsay...
Unite or Perish. Britain's passage to Europe began in earnest on a grey October day in Paris last year. Behind the closed doors of a high-ceilinged conference room in the Quai d'Orsay, Britain's Lord Privy Seal, Edward Richard George Heath, formally notified ministers of the six Common Market nations that his government had reached "a great decision, a turning point in our history." In a deep, resonant voice, Heath declared: "We desire to become full, wholehearted and active members of the European Community in its widest sense, and to go forward with...
...Iron Curtain architecture." In a mammoth exposition hall just outside Zagreb, Welles set up the 850 office desks, 850 secretaries and 850 clattering typewriters among which Kafka's hero, K, lived out his doom. Moving to Paris for later scenes, Welles picked the old, abandoned Gare d'Orsay (built for the Exposition of 1900, and now destined for demolition), whose baroque grotesqueries might well have been designed by Kafka; into its ruined corridors and dank corners Welles moved his props: the Advocate's gigantic gilt bed, hundreds of dripping candles, decaying tables and books. Wrote Director William...