Word: metropolitane
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...grim side. Alternating with the show- biz stars were people like Helen Kushnick, a Beverly Hills mother who lost her three-year-old son Sammy in 1983 to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease known as AIDS, and the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a minister with the North Hollywood Metropolitan Community Church, who has suffered from AIDS since 1984. The message from President Reagan, who had made his first public mention of the widely feared and often stigmatizing illness at a press conference two evenings earlier, also concerned the scourge of AIDS. Read by Actor Burt Reynolds, the statement urged...
...striking the Mexican capital, the killer quake could not have chosen a more vulnerable target. Mexico City is at the heart of the world's most populous metropolitan area. Some 18 million people, a fourth of the nation's inhabitants, are jammed into a mere 890 sq. mi., or roughly 1% of the predominantly rural country's land area. By one estimate, nearly a third of all families in Mexico City huddle together in a single room--and the average family has five members...
...Minister Indira Gandhi during her 1982 state visit, the festival, like Topsy, has just grown. From a planned year's duration, it has stretched to two, with the last events now scheduled in late 1987. Beginning with cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it has spread to trend-spotting stores (New York City's Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdale's). Then it mushroomed as smaller institutions around the nation clamored to join...
Aesthetically, the festival has so far proved inspiriting, although some elements fall short of their aims. At once the most impressive and the most frustrating event is the 300-piece exhibit "India!" at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. For visitors unfamiliar with Indian art, the riches and their antiquity are beguiling. The collection is most complete in painting, reflecting Exhibition Curator Stuart Cary Welch's scholarly specialization in Mogul miniatures. They range from court assemblies to bloody scenes of hunting, from frolicsome glimpses of improbably colored animals and gods to sober, documentary official portraits. Among the more memorable...
Despite--or perhaps because of--the blustering winds and the advice of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to stay inside, touch football games sprang up all around the College. And at the River, even the Metropolitan Police had a hard time controlling a spontaneous party on the muddy banks. (See story, page...