Word: metropolitane
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...adds that depending on the product's success in the metropolitan area, the chain may expand further into other areas of the state. In addition, Gainsborough adds. Cornpopper officials are looking to go beyond the current bounds of the retail outlets and market the various popcorn flavors in supermarkets and liquor stores, supplementing whatever out-of-shop sales might develop from the mail-order business already offered through the chain's stores...
While the master planners have L.A. sprawling off obediently to the desert, the metropolitan economy is supposed to be juiced up by more high-tech industry and a new era of trade with Asia and Latin America. "The growth in the Pacific rim has just begun," says Planner Mark Pisano. "It's going to take off like an exponential curve in two to four decades...
...influence on metropolitan culture, at least superficially, has been great. There is an air, especially in East Los Angeles, of what Mexican Poet Octavio Paz says are his national essences: "delight in decoration, carelessness and pomp, negligence, passion and reserve." Shop signs, often pictorial, are painted directly and unprofessionally on stucco façades. The slow promenades of customized cars are nationally famous...
This is the third year of his tenure at A.B.T, which is currently playing an ambitious eleven-week season at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. His initial goal was to create a strong, youthful corps de ballet and to lessen A.B.T.'s chronic reliance on international stars. The corps now is an impeccably disciplined instrument, but the members are so fresh in their almost votive commitment that their precision never suggests a drill team. At the start of his first season, Baryshnikov also picked out a few youthful dancers and virtually pushed them out onstage...
Replacing the working-class families are the more transient paraprofessionals and other white-collar workers employed in metropolitan Boston. "Their political interests tend to be a lot different than families," says Foster. But city pols are unwilling to speculate about just what that change means...