Word: metropolitanism
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Pinned to one wall of the community relations office at Cambridge Police Headquarters is a series of statements made in 1849 by Sir Robert Peele referring to the London Metropolitan Police's "bobby on the beat" system...
...same time, Weegee had begun to detect that freakish charge in the metropolitan air that would become the signature mood of Arbus' work. There's a feral quality in a lot of the good citizens of Weegee's New York. You catch it in the gleaming eyes of the kids at a crime scene in Their First Murder; these are children who are thrilled, or at the very least intrigued, by the sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma...
...class exodus from multiethnic cities to the suburbs a generation ago, this middle-class migration is from crowded, predominantly white suburbs to small towns and rural counties. Rural America has enjoyed a net inflow of 2 million Americans this decade--that is, 2 million more people have moved from metropolitan centers to rural areas than have gone the traditional small-town-to-big-city route. (In the 1980s, by contrast, rural areas suffered a net loss of 1.4 million people.) Thanks to the newcomers, 75% of the nation's rural counties are growing again after years of decline. Some towns...
That success story landed Wilmington in a 1995 book called The 100 Best Small Towns in America, but as its population has grown from 11,000 in 1990 to more than 13,000 today, the town began getting metropolitan headaches: unplanned development, relentless traffic (36,000 vehicles roll through town every day, 5,000 of them trucks), crime and drugs--even a crack house and a youth-gang problem. Newcomers and old-timers are seeing their visions of small-town life clash, with cultural battles erupting in school-board and city-council meetings. "I moved here because I wanted...
...scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby's. That painting is now in London, where the family is trying to get it back. As for the Degas, it turned up in the catalog for a 1993 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum that listed the owner as Daniel Searle, a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Goodmans contacted Searle and presented him with a detailed record of their claim to the painting. When he refused to give it up, they sued...