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They drew up a supergovernmental agency, called Metro, of 94 separate taxing districts around the lake and built big new sewage-treatment plants. "He won't tell you he was responsible," says a friend, "but Jim put Metro together. He didn't worry about the problems involved in creating another level of government. He just felt it had to be done...
...consumed the nation's resources and its leaders' attention. Midway through Johnson's Administration, it aroused a horde of critics from among those who favored his other policies, if not the man himself: the young, the black, the intellectuals and those whom Historian Eric Goldman calls metro-Americans-the educated, affluent, growing middle class to whom the Alamo psychology is as alien as a President who thrusts his operation-scarred belly at the public...
First, we have not yet adequately committed ourselves as a people to the issue of our cities. Suburbs are indiscriminately growing up around increasingly Negro core cities. Distrust between the races in our great metro-politan areas is heightened...
...hope to see in an age of sophisticated film-making. Michel Piccoli and Danielle Darrieux, two of France's greatest screen stars, walk through their parts with characteristic skill, and Darieux, unlike the rest of the cast, does her own singing. Gene Kelly, his face frozen in its 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer grin, is wonderfully, incredibly, exciting to watch in action. Deneuve and Dorleac as twins ("toutes deux demoiselles, ayant eu des amants tres tot") reflect the joy with which Demy exercises the cinema's glorious potential to permanently trap on celluloid supremely magnificent women...
...Northern European city street scene taken around 1900 shows how decisively art nouveau (or its German version, Jugendstil) permeated the Mauve Decade. As the first art style since the Industrial Revolution to integrate every phase of design, its florid, free-flowing lines ornamented buildings and posters, park benches and Metro stations, Tiffany glass and Liberty silks. Yet few styles have had a shorter life. It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914. With the advent of the machined precision of the 1920s Bauhaus modernism, handcrafted art nouveau became an object of ridicule...