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...Quai des orfevres" at 7:30 p.m. A love triangle with mistaken identity concerning the murder which is eventually resolved...
...enjoyed his immense success. Since his teens, he had haunted museums, and his taste in art and furnishings was regal and excellent. In New York City his base was an opulent apartment in the Dakota; in Paris, an even grander flat on the Quai Voltaire. Both places became salons whenever he was in town; he loved flamboyant people. The Italian island of Li Galli appealed to him because it not only had been owned by the Russian choreographer Leonid Massine but also had been previously visited by Ulysses: it is the legendary home of the Sirens...
...middle of the crowd" is to forge ahead with the integration of Europe. Kohl may be a better Europeanist than anybody else in Europe. "There was a tremendous sense of relief in the French delegation as we came back from Maastricht," recalls Maurice Gourdot- Montagne, a spokesman at the Quai d'Orsay. "We bet on Helmut Kohl because he is the most European...
...images -- evoking the student-worker upheaval of 1968 -- were enough to make any French government tremble: wisps of tear gas drifting across the Seine, helmeted riot police chasing stone-throwing youths in the Latin Quarter, cars set ablaze along the Quai d'Orsay...
...gave the Gare d'Orsay all he had, and that, backed by the decorative and engineering resources of fin de siecle Paris, was quite a lot: a vast semicircular barrel vault of iron and glass, stretching 150 yards from end to end, with elliptical-domed side vaults along the Quai Anatole France facing the Seine, all encased in a wrapping of richly carved limestone facades whose swags, cartouches, urns, allegorical figures and pediments bring to mind the words of Antoinin Careme, Talleyrand's chef: "architecture, which has as its principal branch la patisserie...