Word: metropolitane
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...government had clearly been braced for violence. A day before the demonstration, police killed two men and a woman in a shootout in Santiago. The victims were identified as suspects in last month's assassination of the military governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, a crime the government blames on leftists-and many Chileans blame on rightists. Even though Interior Minister Sergio Onofre Jarpa called for the formation of "neighborhood defense committees" to disrupt the demonstrations, thousands took part in the protests. At least five people were killed...
...Metropolitan, the urbane, formal mastery of Manet...
...without Paris. Both were joined again last spring in a centenary exhibition at the Grand Palais. The retrospective was curated by two art historians, Françoise Cachin, of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and Charles Moffett, until recently curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan in New York City. Last week "Manet, 1832-1883" arrived at the Met: 95 paintings, 45 drawings, and prints. It has been shorn of two key paintings, the Olympia and the Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-a defensible loss, in view of their unique importance and the risks...
...with which he reacted to the International Style-his spiraled Guggenheim Museum in New York City or his proposal to build a mile-high skyscraper in Illinois. The present revival, however, focuses on Wright's early domestic architecture, his houses and, significantly, their interior designs. Last year the Metropolitan Museum placed the reconstructed living room of his Francis Little House (1912-14) of Wayzata, Minn., on permanent display, joining the Temple of Dendur and other landmarks of the march of civilization. Wright was despotically insistent on designing every interior detail of his houses, right down to flower vases...
...tucked away in numerous places across the American landscape, from the sun-dried valleys east of Los Angeles to the wooded hills west of Boston. Once the ruburbs were self-contained farming communities, but the prohibitively pricey real estate of both city apartments and suburban homes is attracting metropolitan immigrants to places like Harvard, Ill., and Saugus, Calif., where the price is right, the pace is easy and the commute to work adventurous but tolerable. But native ruburbanites, who believe that they are insulated from the excesses and evils of the larger world, view with ingrained suspicion the invasion...