Word: metropolitanism
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Between 50 and 75 Metropolitan DistrictCommission Police officers were on hand for thefestivities, but Captain Anthony LoConte said theMDC had expected a calm evening. "It's an older,family-type crowd...
...connoisseur-eat-connoisseur world out there: lies, low blows, sexual politics, thievery, bribery, betrayal and greed. In his first foray into popular fiction, Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine, takes us into the international art arena, where a masterpiece has come up for auction. On the block is the Marchesa Odescalchi, a sexy full-length portrait by the 17th century Spanish master Diego Velasquez of his alleged mistress. Experts predict that the portrait will bring at least $11 million, an auction record for a single painting. Among the main...
That kind of accumulative technique is becoming a model for other designers and retailers, particularly now that Lauren has opened his superstore, in which he has even greater latitude to display such confections. To a certain extent, the Madison Avenue store competes with Polo outlets in New York metropolitan-area department stores. Some East Coast retailing executives were initially resentful of that. Some had supported Lauren in his earlier days or acquiesced to his extensive demands for floor space and elaborate fixtures in their stores. But the retailers are unlikely to shut down the boutiques in protest, because Lauren...
...collection of antique race cars, and jogs three or four miles each morning. Lauren's cultural interests tend to mirror his professional instincts. Last year he spent a reported $350,000 to sponsor an acclaimed historical exposition of riding tack and apparel, called "Man and the Horse," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though he professes to be nonpolitical, Lauren openly supported Democratic Hopeful Gary Hart during the 1984 presidential campaign...
...this month, an average of 1,258 landings or departures were delayed each day at 22 U.S. metropolitan airports. While that is less than 8% of the roughly 16,000 flights scheduled daily, the problem is especially bad at certain key airports. The number of late flights at New Jersey's Newark airport is running 40% above last year's and is the highest in the nation: an average of 146 delays for every 1,000 takeoffs or landings. Other laggards include New York's La Guardia (91 delays per 1,000 operations), Boston's Logan (72), New York...