Word: metropolitanism
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...Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, added the directorship of La Scala in Milan to his resume; La Scala's former leader, Claudio Abbado, 55, headed for Vienna. About the only one who did not go anywhere then was the New York Metropolitan Opera's James Levine...
...cities in the U.S. are not the metropolises of New York and Los Angeles but the smaller and more habitable climes of Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Providence and Charlotte, N.C. To many working families, a higher quality of life, and more of it, compensate nicely for the absence of the Metropolitan Opera or the Hollywood Bowl. When Equitable Life Assurance Society summoned Jim Crawford, 43, back to Manhattan from its Des Moines office, he would not relinquish his Iowa life-style. "We based that decision on the quality of the environment," he says. "People do work hard here, and there...
...revitalized industry pushed past the $3 billion mark last year. And because the 25-ton annual demand exceeds manufacturing capacity, there has been a scramble to increase production. Here in the heartland of the meth outlaws, a territory beginning roughly at the southerly edges of the great Los Angeles metropolitan sprawl, anarchy has replaced the discipline of a monopoly maintained for decades under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County...
...least six police cars and 12 officers responded to assist in the investigation. Harvard, Cambridge and Metropolitan District Commission officers were present...
Remember David Eggar's name, because we know you will be hearing it again. What we don't know is whether it will be for playing the cello or the piano. A national prizewinner in both instruments, Eggar has also sung in 500 performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York...