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...ideas" spread out over the entire 7,090-sq.-mi. Veneto region. The "ideas network" would be centered in the 80-acre Arsenale, the old shipbuilding yards of the Venetian navy. Along the edge of the lagoon, from the polluted petrochemical shores of Marghera to Marco Polo airport, a "Riviera of culture and technology" would be tied together by an aboveground metro. Planners promise that the construction would create 5,000 jobs, as well as a sophisticated electronics- and-communicati ons system to serve the city in the next century...
...observer learns all this by interviewing a plate of superior grilled snapper at an amiable neighborhood restaurant called La Riviera, out in the 'burbs of Jefferson Parish. The snapper is the liveliest football interview in a town that has other important matters, such as the onrush of Mardi Gras, on its mind. "Joe Billy," the observer asked, "how will Elway do against the nickel, three pennies, car keys and a couple pieces of pocket-lint defense...
...over from South America last year. They generally stayed in Antarctica four or five days. Most boats carry naturalists or other experts, who give lectures, and groups often visit scientific stations. So many boats cruise along the peninsula between November and March that it has been dubbed the "Antarctic Riviera." Chile has opened a hotel near its base. Antarctic activities include hiking, mountain climbing, dogsledding, camping and skiing. A few show-offs have even water-skied on the cold waters...
...right people from Cairo to London and to see just enough action to lend authenticity to The Young Lions, the epic war novel that made him famous; a middle passage in which he fritters away critical and popular esteem while pursuing the good life in Paris, the Riviera and, above all, Klosters, the Swiss ski resort that ^ he and the beautiful, occasionally talented people he drew to him made famous. The ending even produces the kind of Faustian moral that goes down well in popular fiction: the hero achieves a full measure of worldly success but at the cost...
Another roommate was the son of a mega-rich Greek financier. Thomas was always full of stories about trips to the French Riviera, complete with stops at chic European night clubs...