Word: parises
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Merkel is also keen to play an active role in shaping the debate about what international financial market regulation should look like after the crisis. At the Paris conference on the future of capitalism hosted this week by Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair, Merkel was pushing for greater regulation of...
Forget Athens and Sparta, Sodom and Gomorrah, Dallas and Fort Worth. Of all the cities whose destinies have been twinned for one reason or another, few can match the intensity of the love-hate relationship between Paris and New York. For much of the past century, the City of Light...
Nowhere has that fond rivalry been more evident than in the field of design. "Paris/New York," a dense, imaginative exhibit running at the Museum of the City of New York until Feb. 22, focuses on 1925-40 - the bright, anodized moment when Paris and New York were forging new ways...
Aside from a few paintings by the transatlantic practitioners of Neo-Romanticism, a gentler version of Surrealism, this is a show about stuff. One of the first things you see is a 6-ft.-long (2 m) wooden model of the Normandie, that floating showcase for Art Deco and French...
Energy was America's competitive advantage. While Paris was bursting with ideas, New York was getting them built. The Paris furniture and fashion designers who were setting world standards began to find their masterpieces knocked off by New York department stores and the emerging Seventh Avenue garment district. A dressing...