Word: metropolitanism
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...days, going on strike is about the grooviest thing you can do short of wearing a hip-hoppy knit winter cap while lifting weights at Crunch next to Tobey Maguire. L.A.'s bus and rail operators have been on strike for about three weeks now in protest over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild...
While Boston began work toward compliance with the Clean Water Act, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) repeatedly applied for waivers from the EPA, under a clause stating that coastal communities whose pollution did no environmental harm could obtain exemptions from...
Similarly, Dr. Gachet, a crucial person in the life of van Gogh and other artists, including Pissaro, so important that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York devoted an exhibit to him a few years ago, is noted only by the inclusion of some etchings. Gachet nurtured van Gogh in his final days, but this is somehow overlooked by Face to Face, an exhibit that otherwise does an excellent job of connecting van Gogh's portraits to his personal life...
James R. Houghton, a member of the Corporation since 1996, is the chair emeritus of Corning, Inc. Most recently he has spent his time as the chair of the Metropolitan Museum...
...ranging from immigration to drug interdiction - this White House, like its seven predecessors, makes a point of publicly shunning the Cuban leader. Thus Crowley went out of his way to emphasize Thursday that Castro would not be welcome at President Clinton's gala event for world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum. Last time Clinton left the Cuban leader off his guest list, Castro upstaged him by holding a raucous pep rally in a Harlem church and stealing the front page. This time, by all accounts, he simply passed a quiet evening at Cuba's U.N. mission on Lexington Avenue. Maybe...