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THE ANTI-ANTI-AMERICANS.(pro-Americanism in France)
Adam Gopnik discusses the current French mind-set
All summer long, Paris was intermittently spectacular and spectacularly intermittent. Even the brightest spectacles came and then, abruptly, went. Every hour on the hour after nightfall, the Eiffel Tower is forced to light up, for exactly ten minutes, in a crazy-quilt pattern of scintillating lights. The lights were put in for the first night of the millennium and taken down the following year, but they were such a hit that they have been permanently reattached to the tower's girders and are turned on according to a schedule. Charming when it first appeared, the show now has something dutiful and undignified about ...
- FRANCE PARIS PLAGE
- Picture from: AP Images REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE July 20, 2009 700+ words
...with an artificial beach, palm trees, outdoor showers and hammocks on the first day of the Paris Plage event in Paris Monday July 20, 2009. Paris Plage, the artificial seaside stretching along the Seine has kept Parisians cool each summer since...
- APTOPIX FRANCE PARIS PLAGE
- Picture from: AP Images REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE July 20, 2009 700+ words
...verges, an artificial beach, palm trees, outdoor showers and hammocks on the first day of the Paris Plage event in Paris Monday July 20, 2009. Paris Plage, the artificial seaside stretching along the Seine has kept Parisians cool each summer since...
- PARIS PLAGE.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) July 23, 2004 700+ words
Byline: FRANCK GUILLORY During the coming month in Paris, the busy motorway along the side of the Seine is transformed into the Riviera. Here are 10 handy tips from a native on how to...
- France: Paris Rising; Can the City of Light escape the shadow of its past and...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Pape, Eric August 16, 2004 700+ words
...the mayor's earliest agenda-setting innovations, "Paris Plage"--a temporary beach set up along the embankments...Seine for a few weeks each year. Now in its third year, Paris Plage drew more than 2 million sun-worshipers in its first...
- PARIS ..one city for three budgets; CASH IN WITH OUR GUID THE French capital is...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) August 13, 2006 700+ words
...along the banks of the Seine to the Paris Plage where you can cool off under the...regular free rock concerts along the Paris Plage through summer and also in parks...www.parisinfo.com or call in Paris on 0892 68 3000. TOTAL pounds 34...
- Only in Paris - the world's first feminist bridge stretches across the...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) July 16, 2006 700+ words
...arid stretch of the river in eastern Paris. It links the new national library...swimming pool has just opened close by. Paris Plage - the summertime conversion of the...Dietmar Feichtinger, 45, is a Paris-based Austrian and a rising star...
- Cross-Chunnel Fusion; With Eurostar, London has become a suburb of Paris.
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International McNicoll, Tracy Flynn, Emily August 23, 2004 700+ words
...commute." With a cheap new 35 euro Paris-to-London fare--less than...To Londoners, Eurostar pushes Paris Plage, the uber-cool Seine-side beach...ideas. The British community in Paris has doubled since 1997 to 70,000...
- Paris mayor tries to create an in-city Riviera, shuffle, shuffle.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 25, 2002 700+ words
...WASHINGTON TIMES Twenty million tourists descend on Paris each year, hoping to capture a taste of the city...July, billboards and newspapers started trumpeting 'Paris Plage' - Paris beach. The idea was that the city would dump tons of...
