Word: metropolitane
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...Announcing that it's all deeply philosophical gives the media a peg to hang it on. But it's only a mix of California funk, 1920s Kurt Schwitters [the German Dadaist], and a few things that have been lying around unclaimed." Still, Ben Lloyd, an editor at Metropolitan Home magazine, speaks for many in the design world when he states that "Memphis has made furniture much more politically interesting than before...
Last week the Metropolitan Opera offered a few clues as it staged a new production of Riccardo Zandonai's hot-blooded thriller Francesca da Rimini. First performed in 1914, Francesca was one of a number of works that attempted to transcend romantically the naturalistic action of verismo, using the more advanced harmonic language and orchestral technique of Wagner to create a new direction for opera. In La Fanciulla del West (1910), Puccini had pointed the way, and several younger men were eager to inherit his mantle: Italo Montemezzi, with L'Amore del Tre Re (1913); Ildebrando Pizzetti, with...
...some of the state's "bedroom communities"--localities where most of the population works in a bordering metropolitan area--have voluntarily operated extended hours since the 1950's according to Belmont town clerk Ann C. Wilson...
Most of the agencies that a student may be placed with are in the metropolitan Boston area. Student interest in the social sciences--law, government, public relations--is usually particularly strong, and this year should be no exception. Begley attributes the popularity of these programs is due to the experience these internships offer, not the salaries. "These students are concerned with making contacts, getting recommendations, and internships are useful for this sort of thing," she adds...
...current exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings at New York City's Metropolitan Museum is, one need hardly point out, a must for almost anyone who is interested in either drawings or bodies. All the same, it is not the easiest of shows. Its predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus...