Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...related development, Leonard Kopelman '62, attorney for Metropolitan Greetings, Inc.--the comany that owns the property where all three companies have operated--said Starr will be forced to quite the premises within two weeks...
About 4000 cavities form daily in the mouths of children and teenagers in the metropolitan Boston area. Most dental and public health experts believe that more than half of these cavities can be prevented cheaply and easily by fluoridating the water supply. On Jan. 1, 1978, after ten years of state planning and construction, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will begin fluoridating the water supplied to Boston and 33 surrounding communities...
...show, which is scheduled to travel to museums in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Boston and Philadelphia into 1979, includes very nearly all of the major examples of early Irish art that have remained in Irish collections, a loan of unparalleled generosity. Its only fault, a too common one at the Metropolitan, is the installation-a gross Tiffany-in-Vegas effort, with each item so harshly spotlit that exaggerated shadows break up the intricate gold surfaces, eliding the exquisitely delicate transitions of depth and texture which were the very essence of the Celtic jewelers' art. Everything looks as if it were...
...Book of Burrow that one detached 17th century visitor watched its guardian monk dipping it, binding and all, into a pail of water to make a miraculous remedy for the monastery's sick cattle. (The cows recovered after drinking the water; the book still carries the stains.) The Metropolitan's exhibition contains not only the Book of Durrow, but also two of the four volumes-Mark and John-that make up the Gospel Book of Kells. This 8th century work, originally housed in the monastery of Kells in County Meath and later moved to Dublin for safekeeping during...
This is the Metropolitan Opera's second season under the joint leadership of Music Director James Levine, 34, and Director of Production John Dexter, 52. They are men of skill and self-assurance, and when they succeed, as they did last winter with Berg's Lulu, they justify the Met's often advertised suggestion that to buy one of its tickets is to "strike a blow for civilization." When Levine and Dexter miss, they raise worries about the wisdom of dual artistic control. Last week's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto was about...