Word: metropolitanism
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...department, DOT opened to 40-ton trucks a portion of Route 9 in the state that includes a bridge currently posted with a twelve-ton weight limit. The designations will also permit bigger trucks to rumble through the traffic-clogged streets of New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and other metropolitan areas on their way to delivery terminals...
...past month, Metromedia Telecommunications, a division of the big television-and radio-station owner, has been blitzing the New York metropolitan area with an advertising campaign for its new rental beeper, fittingly named the Li'l Bugger. Suggests a newspaper ad: "Lose 'em, beep 'em-find 'em, keep 'em." The Li'l Bugger, which is powered by one A A 1.5-volt battery and has a range of 30 miles, rents for $39.95 a year with a $5-a-month broadcast fee and a 25? charge per call. Metromedia says it has been getting...
...Fisher's dream has turned out to be a unique contribution to the world's cultural heritage. Some of the swords and daggers he found are going to the Tower of London armaments collection. Starting next year, Thomas Hoving, a former director of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art who is now organizing traveling cultural exhibits, plans to take the 1622 haul on a worldwide tour. As for Fisher, he is still dreaming, this time of finding the mother lode: 1,078 silver ingots that sank with the Atocha. And maybe he will...
...wear out of a tuxedo or a long, black skirt. "Nowhere does the truth behind the caricature shine through so clearly as at the annual Lowell House opera. Few other music and drama societies, while putting off the most ambitious of feats, strive to emulate the Metropolitan Opera House. At the 44th Annual Lowell House Opera, by contrast, the ushers wear black velvet, the concentration of Faculty members and other non-students is high, especially on "patron night" and the sets, voices and period costumes dazzle with ornateness. Toward the end, a giant spritzer even douses the stage and audience...
...part, Metropolitan does not believe that people who adopt the new guidelines will die younger. And some doctors see a bright side to the standards. "Fighting Mother Nature is getting to be a serious problem," says Dr. George Blackburn, a renowned nutrition expert at Harvard. "I have a hospital full of anorectics." He advises people who are only a few pounds away from their goals to "relax, adjust to the new range and start having fun. There's no reason to be a size 6 or 8 when a size 10, or even...