Word: metropolitane
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...White House handouts and glamorous legislative debates to probe scandals, follies and policy debates in obscure federal agencies. In this capacity it serves as an invaluable watchdog. Columnists Mary McGrory, Richard Cohen and George Will have mastered the art of arousing emotion without overlooking ideas. The paper's metropolitan staff brings much the same assiduity to the diverse politics of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Post also has a sincere commitment to helping the poor. Two reporters spent a year checking on the operators of a low-cost housing venture in Washington, and their findings will...
...Boston Globe, which has an aggressive social conscience, won for "special" (usually investigative) local reporting on race relations. One series criticized institutions, including the Globe, for poor minority hiring, and concluded, "Boston today is the hardest metropolitan area in America for a black person to hold a job or earn a promotion." News Photographer Stan Grossfeld, 32, won for portraits of suffering citizens in Lebanon...
...working in Chinatown sweatshops. While Asians are over-represented in a number of technical fields, they are also over-represented in the garment worker occupation, as well as the restaurant worker category. It is true that Asian incomes exceed the national average, yet Asians live in Pacific, Eastern, and metropolitan areas with costs of living that far exceed the national average. When compared to the average income within their metropolitan areas, Asian incomes generally lag behind the area-wide averages. Moreover, Asians tend to be underemployed for their levels of education...
...Metropolitan, the problematic French painter Balthus...
...Paris show, with some additions and substitutions, has now come to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City-without Balthus's full blessing, it would seem, since he was offended by the number of facts about his life given by Art Historian Sabine Rewald in her catalogue. Balthus hates any biographical disclosures to be made: the Paris catalogue did not even give his date of birth. "Just say," he told the art critic John Russell, who organized a Balthus retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1968, "that Balthus is a painter about whom nothing is known." However...