Word: metropolitane
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...first impression is one of vitality and variety. The exhibition rooms of the Costume Institute at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are bursting with lavish clothes: swift little contemporary silhouettes; magnificent ball gowns seemingly from a grander, more inert age; fantastical garments of no recognizable provenance. A few are so ugly that the eye looks away; many more are heartbreakingly lovely. They are all the work of one man: Yves Saint Laurent, 47, the most famous and influential clothing designer in the world, the king of fashion...
Saint Laurent is the first person to be honored with a Metropolitan retrospective while he is still active. (The only other couturier to have been the subject of a one-man show at the Met: the Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, in 1973.) The choice was made by the museum's director and by the Costume Institute's special consultant, Diana Vreeland, whose judgment it reflects. Says the legendary former editor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, with the certitude and gusto that she has retained into her eighth decade: "Saint Laurent has been built into the history...
Yves Saint Laurent radiates timidity and a fragile, overstrained sensibility. Last Tuesday when he found his way to the Costume Institute in the bowels of the Metropolitan Museum, he was stopped by a security guard and meekly signed in to see his own show. As the frantic week of preparation went on, he was coaxed one way by Diana Vreeland, the other by his hectoring partner, Pierre Bergé. Saint Laurent did his best, moving as if in a daze...
...Cambridge have also remembered their favorite son. The school of public administration was renamed the Kennedy School of Government in 1966. Two years ago, following rumors that the school was playing down its connections with the slain leader, the city council renamed Boylston St. John F. Kennedy St. The Metropolitan District Commission will soon give Cambridge a third Kennedy memorial--a park south of the K-School...
...Metropolitan phone companies are vulnerable to bypassing because so much of their business comes from so few customers. About 24% of the revenues of New York Telephone last year came from just 1% of business customers. All the bypass systems already constructed have drained as much as $32 million in revenues from the AT&T operating companies...