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Some rather startling and provocative associations result: Venus insufficiency , Phi Beta Capita, sin eruptions, positive throat structure (`culture').
From the hotel terrace, before breakfast and the first crowds, look out onto the pine trees and snowy peaks of Fairview mountain to the south and the Beehive to the north, with the dazzling white Victoria glacier producing startling reflections on the shimmering surface of the lake.
Because of Turpan’s location in the Tarim Basin — at 79 m (260 ft) below sea level, this is the second-deepest continental basin in the world — it’s startling to discover here a sizeable city where houses are supplied with electricity and running water and shady trees line the streets.
--in the first few minutes but, for all his startling juxtapositions, he never dramatizes it with anything approaching the clarity of, say, Brian De Palma's Casualties of War (1989).
East of the Forum des Halles, streets closed to traffic and lined with cafés, brasseries, art galleries, and boutiques link up with the startling Centre Georges-Pompidou.