Word: metropolitanism
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...Love Undetectable) and former New Republic editor, who epitomizes the argument that homosexuals should embrace the existing institutions of heterosexual society. "We are a mainstream force." Sullivan likes to point out that the richest gay group in the nation isn't a political group but a religious denomination, the Metropolitan Community Church, whose offerings totaled $17 million last year and whose membership across the nation has grown to 40,000. And the mainstreaming of gays isn't confined to New York City and Los Angeles: 21-year-olds are coming out everywhere, so that, for instance, a gay freshman landing...
...ensuing decade and a half, Wichita's home schoolers have hit adolescence. And with the legality of home schooling firmly established, home schoolers have been joined by an exodus from the city's troubled public schools. The result is a metropolitan area that today boasts 1,500 home-school families, many with teenage children demanding basketball teams, theater productions and science labs. So the home-school movement in Wichita has literally outgrown the home. Wichita's home schoolers boast three bands, a choir, a bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate...
Like many students at this University, an important criterion in my choice to come here was that Harvard has Boston, while schools such as Yale, Brown and Dartmouth have New Haven, Providence and Hanover. I was looking forward to the chance to live in the same metropolitan area as hundreds of thousands of other students. Though I do not regret my choice, I do regret allowing myself to settle for the Crimson walls of Cambridge for my first two years...
...shared by Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren. But unlike the holy trinity, Mizrahi, who trafficked in whimsical, feminine, but rarely outlandish garments, never managed to create a signature look. "There were brilliant first collections," notes Richard Martin, head of the Costume Institute at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "but they became more and more erratic. Calvin, Donna and Ralph all developed something very distinctive...
...electronica on their latest Walking Wounded represented a revolutionary addition to their delicate, acoustic lounge songwriting, Saint Etienne has been busily crafting taut electronic Euro-pop for nearly a decade now. If their sophisticated European following is any indication, Saint Etienne has all but captured the sound of sunny metropolitan luxury. However, only on their latest, utterly adroit album Good Humor has the band truly devised ravishing and flawless pop music in the most classic sense of the term. Boasting the lush, crisp sound that has evolved slowly from their first album Foxbase Alphawhich, though impressively sweet, now sounds dated...