Word: metropolitane
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...keep up with daylight savings time, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) recently decided to extend this period to October--as move that has provoked varying responses from citizens...
...passed by a majority vote. Oklahoma didn't actually repeal prohibition until 1959, and organizers on both side of the liquor-by-the-drink issue says most of the arid state is still very much in favor of being dry. The only exceptions noted are the counties including metropolitan Oklahoma City and Tulsa, which have grown rapidly (Oklahoma City 45,000 since 1970; Tulsa 35,000 in the same 14 years) with an influx of people--presumably alcohol fans--from the East and Midwest who came to escape unemployment and cash in on the oil boom. Soldiers at For Sill...
...also be taken as a reaffirmation of a lot of things we've been hearing about the transformation of die-hard conservative attitudes in the Sunbelt by urbanization and an influx of Easterners (in Oklahoma, for example, fully two-thirds of the population of 3,025,290 lives in metropolitan areas). But more than 40 percent of Oklahoma City's 403,213 residents and 60 counties--more than 85 percent of the state's land area--turned thumbs down on changing one of the oldest traditions in the 77-year-old state...
...been diminished by the intervention of 19th century missionaries. The clerics wanted the genitalia removed from Maori sculptures. Many ancestral figures remained demonstrably unscathed, but others were particularly hard hit, like the celebrated Kahungunu, who was known throughout his tribe for the size of his sexual equipment. At the Metropolitan, he may be seen pointing pridefully to the tip of his long-vanished penis...
...most aggressive figures were carved on waka tupapaku, or wooden burial chests that Maori mourners upended in caves to scare off intruders. As cannily lit by the Metropolitan, the waka tupapaku from North Island glowers in the shadows with unearthly menace. But terror is not the only emotion the piece is intended to convey. The figure's stylized arms calmly repose upon its protuberant belly, as if to reassure the person whose bones are contained within...