Word: metropolitanism
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...anyone who has seen the mini-hit film Metropolitan, the setting will be instantly familiar. This large, chastely furnished library, in a town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, was where the callow preppies of "Sally Fowler's rat pack" were filmed during their postdance gabfests. On a Wednesday evening the place is filled with grownup baby boomers, many of them huddled at a small bar near the door. But the talk, for the most part, isn't about Hamptons and debentures. A petite blond writer in an electric red dress speculates for a guest about what might happen...
...used for drug shipments by the Colombian cocaine cartel. During his hearing, Noriega's three attorneys sought to have Hoeveler dismiss the case on the basis of government misconduct, including the alleged illegal taping of Noriega's telephone conversations with his lawyers from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Miami. Said attorney Frank Rubino: "The quality and degree of the government's crimes is unlike anything seen since Watergate...
...Biscayne, the affluent residential island of 12,000 south of Miami, 58% of the voters chose to secede from Metropolitan Dade County and incorporate their community as a separate city. Reason: anger over Metro Dade's zoning decisions, which have led to overdevelopment and congestion, according to the secessionists. At least four other Miami-region communities are plotting their escape from the county bureaucracy...
Since the U.S. military invaded Panama last December and brought back General Manuel Noriega for trial in Miami on drug-trafficking charges, the former dictator has had just one link to the outside world: a beige telephone sitting on a shelf outside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The phone has two little stickers attached, one in Spanish, one in English, warning him that all calls are monitored. If Noriega wants to make a call, a guard dials the number and waits for a reply before handing over the instrument. Only conversations with Noriega's defense lawyers are deemed...
...group remained silent as it made its way down John F. Kennedy St. toward the river. As they approached the Lars Anderson Bridge, Metropolitan Police officers ordered them to move out of the street and onto the sidewalk...