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...... EIFFEL TOWER GENERALIZATIONS:
Meanwhile, the Eiffel Tower continues to draw people to Paris, France, because it is so dominant a symbol of Paris (The City of Lights) and because it stands out so boldly and beautifully in travel brochures and posters, TV commercials, and in movies about Paris of which there are many. Miriam R. Levin, writing from a engineering point of view in The French Review (Levin 1989), insists that the Eiffel Tower is a significant example of the role which the arts of design, or applied arts, have played in industrializing society
And William Thompson, also writing in The French Review (Thompson 2000), explains that after the initial barrage of protest against the Eiffel Tower by such artistic luminaries as Maupassant and Huysmans, artists and writers began saluting the iconic tower with romantic narrative and poems. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote Zone in 1912, and it still rings with romance all these years later. Apollinaires vision of the Eiffel Tower, Thomson writes (p. 1134), is a maternal figure, a modern shepherdess watching over the bridges of Paris, over a city now overwhelmed by cars and planes. Moreover, to the poet the Eiffel Tower is a sudden,

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