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...flagship of the Times Mirror Co. is positioning itself to challenge the nation's most highly regarded newspapers -- the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal -- for visibility, influence and prestige. With a daily circulation of 1.2 million, the L.A. Times is already the largest metropolitan paper in the U.S., outstripping the daily New York Times by 88,000 and the Washington Post by 416,000. Its profits for 1991 are projected to top $110 million, double that of the New York Times. With its frequent scoops, informative graphics and emphasis on analysis of world...
...working-class neighborhood of Washington. The den extension and the enlarged kitchen were not built by the man of the house, Shep Deering, but by his wife, who is handy with a hammer and saw. Her husband of 35 years still works as a mechanic for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. But, says Mrs. Deering, "I'd never marry a musician. I've seen so many bad marriages with musicians...
...number of U.S. museums that hoped to get them and vied with one another in the lavishness of their installations: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington. The collection will go on temporary exhibit, starting June 4, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. And last week Annenberg announced that its landing there would become permanent: he had bequeathed his collection en bloc to the Met. At this news, the muted gnashing of directorial dentures was heard from coast to coast. "This is one of the largest...
PARSIFAL. On paper at least, it sings. Wagner's perennial Lenten draw is a specialty of James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, and for this year's cast, he has united the great Jessye Norman as Kundry and supertenor Placido Domingo in the title role of this new production. Performances through April...
...Sometimes, as though by a benign but unforeseen planetary conjunction, exhibitions in New York City will light one another up. So it is with the present retrospectives of two of the leading figures of Russian modernism: Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Liubov Popova (1889-1924) at the Museum of Modern...