Word: metropolitanism
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...Metropolitan, the new low-budget film produced by Harvard graduate Whit Stillman, was something of a curiosity when it opened this August in Manhattan. It told a simple, quiet story of a small group of young New York socialites who spend the Christmas season attending debutante balls and engaging in witty banter at after-parties...
...more than a month, Metropolitan was shown only at one movie theater in the country, New York's Paris theater. Not surprisingly, notoriously solipsistic Manhattanites adored it. But despite its limited scope--Manhattan and its subsidiary, the Hamptons--Metropolitan supercedes regionalism and parochialism. This finely crafted film is sweetly anachronistic in an age of high-tech and high budget movies. It is a delightfully literate and sincere exploration of the death of the self-styled American aristocracy...
...Republican side, the Globe poll gave attorney William C. Sawyer '51 an eight-point lead over former Metropolitan District Commissioner Guy Carbone, who dropped his gubernatorial bid earlier in the year...
...culture too, New York remains a pacesetter. Other cities would be proud to have one world-class performing troupe. New York has dozens, including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the American Ballet Theater, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the Manhattan Theater Club. As a showcase for theater, Broadway has few rivals -- unless they are the city's own off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions. Its collection of museums is a gallery in itself...
...serenity of the countryside, right? Wrong. Preliminary statistics from the 1990 census indicate that over the past decade the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s was reversed. Rural areas may have lost as many as 1.4 million people, far more than demographers had predicted. By contrast, metropolitan areas along the California and Florida coasts have grown sharply...