Word: metropolitane
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...ENGLISH PAINTER HOWARD Hodgkin, whose work is on show at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art through Jan. 28 (and will open at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, on March 31) is not for those art-world puritans who would rather have their art difficult than enjoyable. If anyone painting today believes in the pleasure principle, it is Hodgkin, and if you think that optical sensuous delight for its own sake has somehow become unkosher since Matisse, and that ideas are mainly what count...
Residents and municipalities up and down the East Coast spent the week digging out from the Blizzard of '96, a huge and paralyzing storm system that dumped record or near record snowfalls on major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. At least 100 deaths were attributed to the weather...
DIED. RICHARD VERSALLE, 63, tenor; of an apparent heart attack; at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Poised on a ladder, Versalle was performing the opening scene of The Makropulos Case when he was stricken and fell to the stage. He had just sung the line, "You can only live so long...
...METROPOLITAN SMOKERS ARE A FORlorn lot these days. As more cities ban cigarettes in public places, smokers are altering every daily habit but the one they most crave. They take lunch at the restaurant bar because only there can they enjoy a quick stick of nicotine for dessert. They dash from their seats at the football stadium to the rest-room, missing the play of the day for the puff of the moment. Shivering in shirtsleeves outside their office complexes, they increase the risk that they will succumb not to emphysema but to chilblains...
Brazen self-reinvention is one of the great themes of American literature. Of course, when James Gatz turned himself into the fabulous Jay Gatsby, he was following the more traditional pattern of the outsider remaking himself as a metropolitan sophisticate. But in these days of rampant reverse snobbery, when "outsiderness" is prized and "insiderness" is shunned, there is no reason the same techniques cannot work the other way around. The fabulous fictional character "Lamar Alexander," for example--Republican presidential candidate, outsider, man of the people, scourge of Washington and everything in it--has been created out of Lamar Alexander...