Word: metropolitane
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...AMERICAN BALLET THEATER'S PROduction (Romeo and Juliet) was lovely, the music (Prokofiev) splendid, and the principal dancers (Laurent Hilaire and Sylvie Guillem) enchanting. But the roiling applause at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House went mainly to the man who was making his U.S. debut in the orchestra pit, RUDOLF NUREYEV. Now 54, the century's most celebrated male dancer has got a leg up on a new career as a conductor. Admirers who feared that he could not achieve so radical a transition without embarrassment may rest easy. Nureyev, who started conducting both ballet and stage performances with considerable...
...impact is devastating. The black community has a larger proportion of crime within major metropolitan areas than any other community. The majority of that crime is black offender, black victim...
...WHERE: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITY...
...even the resources of the Metropolitan Museum of Art can turn Harnett into one of the best American artists of his time. This is not for lack of trying. The Met's Harnett show, which will travel to Fort Worth and San Francisco before finishing at the National Gallery in Washington in the spring of 1993, marks the 100th anniversary of his death and contains most of his known work...
...Some of them tackled this task with the pomposity you would expect. Richard Walden Hale "finds that the best hobby is owning plenty of New England land." Ernest Blaney Dane wrote that "although his collection [of fine jade and crystal] is not as large as the one in the Metropolitan Museum, he believes it is finer...