Word: metropolitanism
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...everyday event for a woman to rise topless from a large cauldron in Memphis. But when Cheryllynn Ross did so last week as Hecate during the New York-based Metropolitan Opera touring performance of Macbeth, she was risking more than a chill: the city's tough new antinudity ordinance, aimed chiefly at topless dancers, could have brought quick arrest. Two division commanders of the local police were on the scene. Would they rush the cauldron and haul its contents off to the slammer...
...been attacked recently for supporting leftist causes in the U.S. and abroad. Last week the N.C.C. had another explosive issue on its hands: homosexuality. Meeting in San Francisco, the 207 delegates on the N.C.C.'s governing board considered an application for membership by the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, most of whose 27,000 parishioners...
...widespread Christian belief that homosexual acts are sinful is based on explicit statements in the Bible, including the passage from Leviticus: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination." But the Metropolitan Community Church teaches that homosexuality is "a gift from God" and that there is nothing immoral about gay relationships. The church also conducts rites of "holy union" for gay couples, as well as "holy matrimony" for heterosexual couples...
...committee chose the Stadium because it is one of few fields in a major metropolitan area satisfying the requirements of the Federation International de Football Association, soccer's governing body. Most stadium fields are not wide enough for soccer, have artificial turf or an inadequate seating capacity to host the games, or host baseball teams with schedules that would conflict with the games...
...Owner Maynard has been at the Tribune as editor since 1979 and publisher since 1981. He believes he is the first black to hold any of his positions at a large metropolitan daily with a primarily (62%) white readership. But he dismisses his ground-breaking status as "one of the world's more boring statistics." Says he: "The issue is the quality of the paper, not the color of the executive...