Word: metropolitanism
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First broadcast on four consecutive evenings in June 1990, the Metropolitan Opera's RING OF THE NIBELUNG was a high-toned TV spectacular that swept up viewers in the passion and power of Wagner's masterpiece. Now Deutsche Grammophon has released the complete home-video version, on both VHS and Laserdisc, as well as a new recording of Siegfried, the final installment of conductor James Levine's separate CD Ring. With largely the same star cast, including Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde and James Morris as Wotan (Reiner Goldberg sings the role of Siegfried on the CD, while Siegfried Jerusalem plays...
...Democratic fund raiser in Chicago. Clinton's defenders take comfort in the fact that their candidate has survived months of scrutiny by the press and voters. "He's got presidential stature, and he's convinced a lot of people that he can win," says Ed Scribner, president of the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. "When he started out, there were some problems with his private life, but I think most people in our union look at that as a private matter and do not think it takes away from his ability to run this country." But that reasoning ignores the fact...
...play draws to a close, the two couples rendezvous in the metropolitan Museum of Art. O'Keefe urges Audrey to leave Victor. "Not again, Alfred, never again," she says, implying her regret over their love affair...
...York sits far away from the glitter of the center of the city. The term "inner city" is ironic--ghettoes like East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant and Jamaica, Queens in Brooklyn are about as far away as one can get from the inner city without actually leaving the metropolitan area. They're isolated, lonely places whose evils and troubles are not permitted to touch the sanctity of the true "inner city...
...QUEBEC isn't all there is to the city. Beyond the walls of the original town is newer Quebec and a huge metropolitan area. My parents and I wandered past the gates of the old city to a street called the Grande Allee...