If there was a victor this week it was neither France nor the commission, but the grand political fudge, a concoction for which Europeans are still justly famed.
The Modern will still have its famed sculpture garden, but the new space, which is under construction, will be 20percentt larger.
But it is the expansive outdoors, mountain views and fine climate (except in August, when you could fry a hot dog at the Rose Bowl) that still make Pasadena, the famed City of Roses, a shining jewel of Southern California and an enduring object of jealousy.
If you're still hungry, Los Pinarenos Fruteria at 1334 (famed for its healthy and not-so-healthy delicacies), you'll be ready for dinner at El Cristo.
After screening the finished, watered-down, film, famed columnist Walter Lippmann said he still found one scene "shocking".
From time to time, when you channel your famed eccentricity into your work, it still hits home.
Vietnam was the first war in which the division, famed for its parachuting feats and still jealous of its "Airborne" name, used helicopters.
But a recently launched class-action suit for sexual harassment, which almost 300 current and former female Mounties are expected to join, suggests that the force famed for "always getting its man" still doesn't quite "get" women.
Still waving the anti-Royal flag, though, was famed Smiths frontman Morrissey, who ripped the institution, saying they served no purpose whatsoever.
