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Amid spasms of public anarchy, Anton Vowl, a Parisian insomniac in psychological discomfort, prowls his lodgings by night. Hypochondria haunts him, plus a doom that has him in thrall: "A unit is lacking. An omission, a blank, a void that nobody but him knows about, thinks about, that, flagrantly, nobody wants to know or think about. A missing link." As "panicky as a pig in an abbatoir," Vowl awaits his karma...
...gone to Galliagno's English-language bookstore, which is located near the glass pyramids of the Louvre, because I was tired of steak frites. I had been eating the same meal at countless restaurants, some of course better than others, but all really the same. Unless you're Parisian, a guide-book is called for to alleviate such dilemmas. Gault-Millau was obviously the best for purposes of dining. On my budget, however, selecting the venue for the evening meal in that way would be exaggerating. This economical state of mind led me to choose between Harvard...
...echo in the monikers of old-time players: Lu Blue, Pebbly Jack Glasscock, Orval Overall, Baby Doll Jacobson, Heinie Manush. Sometimes a player finds a namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...
Founded 63 years ago, the American Center is a privately supported cultural haven that has presented the creme de la creme of contemporary American artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers and musicians to Parisian audiences. Over the years it has been a hangout for Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and has served as host of performances by the likes of John Cage, Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass, Steve Lacy and Merce Cunningham. In 1987 the center sold its dilapidated headquarters on the Boulevard Raspail and embarked on an ambitious building program in the Bercy region of eastern Paris. And that's where...
...Gehry building had not caused the American Center enough financial trouble, it has also created an aesthetic controversy -- but not the one anybody would have expected. Parisians think the building is too ... Parisian. Critics have complained that it is not bold and Californian enough. Gehry "has abandoned a bit of his wild, spontaneous quality in order to cater to a Parisian norm," charges Francois Chaslin, editor of the influential monthly Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. "The result is more ordinary, less powerful than his other buildings...