Word: metropolitane
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...peaked in popularity, not as an orthopedic shoe but as inexpensive hippie footwear. Today the sandals with the trademark gold buckle and unmistakable staccato ticking sound are back. "Sales are up 630% from last year," says Alan Johnson, a buyer for Shoes.com "It started in January as a very metropolitan craze. Now they've spread to every corner." Their resurgence was probably boosted by Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex in the City character, who clops around Manhattan in them. They also complement this season's '70s-inspired bohemian chic, marked by peasant blouses and worn-out denim. This...
...have about the experience in the museum—we must provide different levels and more of the visitor amenities. You’ll have more people go to art museums in the United States than go to all sporting events combined. Five million a year go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, five million go to the National Gallery in Washington...
Jean-Marie Messier certainly made a splash when he moved to New York City from Paris last year. He settled into a $17.5 million Park Avenue duplex and started popping up at Metropolitan Opera soirees and in the gossip pages. Perhaps that's fitting, since Messier is a former water-company executive who became a man-about-town and a French business celebrity by turning Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it by orchestrating a series of stock-and-cash deals for American assets such as Universal Studios and USA Networks...
...Garden State. Yes, Jersey has dirt. Yes, it has crime. Yes, it has some unpleasant smells. But Jersey also is the birthplace of several internationally acclaimed musicians and actors and home to one of the best universities in the world and serves as a prime location between two booming metropolitan cities...
DIED. EILEEN FARRELL, 82, unassuming soprano who defied opera elitists by forging a pop career; in Park Ridge, N.J. Some 20 years after receiving her own radio show in the 1940s, Farrell debuted at the Metropolitan Opera. She later recorded the chart-topping pop album I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues...