That reputation is a pretty unhelpful prism through which to view the film, attaching expectations of concrete, capital-I Importance even to Welles's most puckish instincts as a film-maker: once I had watched it as a film rather than a totem, the zest and verve and acrid humour of this precociously nonconformist "biopic" of a disguised William Randolph Hearst came far more silkily to the fore.
Olivier Bailly, a commission spokesman, denied that the body had drawn up concrete plans for capital controls and reiterated its desire for Greece to remain in the euro zone.
The EPR is the biggest plant ever designed and has safety systems galore, which means more pipes, more wiring, more concrete and higher capital costs.
Wandering around the camp on the concrete of the capital, it is clear the struggle is far from over for many of the families who have tried to make new lives by occupying land.
In the 1930's, he ordered a mass tree-planting in an effort to add some greenery to his increasingly concrete-and-asphalt capital.
The building had been burned during Vietnam War protests, but more serious damage was inflicted when a renovation at that time tore the guts out of the place, filling windows with concrete, slicing ornate capitals off the columns and hiding the balcony behind a drooping concrete wall.
I start watching Aló Presidente near the ugly concrete centre of the capital, Caracas, in a fast food restaurant smelling of criollo, the national dish.
At the time of writing the mums are still inside, having converted a decent, needlessly empty home (power shower, new cooker and electrics still on) into a community centre – and a concrete reproach to the capital's housing crisis.
Choroni attracts mainly Caracans taking a weekend away from the capital's concrete mayhem, but foreign tourists working their way to or from the Andes comprise a significant minority.
