Word: metropolitane
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...means of support other than the husband, many a battered woman sinks into despairing submission, from which the only escape is eventual widowhood, her own murder (or, perhaps in a flash of retaliatory rage, her husband's), or suicide. According to a four-year study of a major metropolitan hospital completed this year, 25% of all women's suicide attempts are preceded by a prior history of battering...
...down haphazardly and stops. Worse, Rossner cannot seem to decide what kind of book she is writing. At moments she appears to strive for the heartfelt tone of Judith Guest in Ordinary People; a few sentences later she lurches into smug social satire reminiscent of Fran Lebowitz's Metropolitan Life...
...amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine Renaissance men, Dietz translated the librettos of La Bohème and Die Fledermaus into English for the Metropolitan Opera, dabbled in oil painting, and devised a two-handed bridge game that bears his name...
...strong ethnic diversity of Miami's community: without a single black staffer 15 years ago, the Herald now has 20 black reporters, a black editor and a black columnist. Even greater strides have been made toward the city's Latin population. The Herald is the only large metropolitan newspaper in the country to publish a daily Spanish edition (circ. 66,000). There are two Latin columnists and 40 staff members, including a member of the editorial board, to help cover the city's politically potent Cuban community. Nevertheless, assimilation is hardly complete: top management is still clubby...
...York City, where there are about 250,000 jobless teen-agers (40% of whom are blacks or Hispanics). "Unemployment is bad for business-more jobs mean greater consumer purchasing power." The New York program has already placed 11,000 low-income youngsters in large firms like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Similar private programs are thriving in cities as economically diverse as St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit and Los Angeles. In Tampa, Baseball Stars Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Lou Piniella, as well as other celebrities, have pitched in, appearing in TV commercials to promote summer jobs for teenagers...