Word: metropolitanism
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...portrait, Phil, by Artist Chuck Close that hangs in New York's Whitney Museum. Glass's adventurous collaboration with avant-garde Dramatist Robert Wilson resulted in Einstein on the Beach, an experimental five-hour "opera" that played to packed houses in Europe and twice sold out the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Satyagraha, a more conventional work based on an episode from the life of Gandhi, is perhaps the most accessible, spiritually exhilarating opera composed since World...
...calendar said September, but the audiences filling Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House obviously did not believe it. When the jaunty man in the black vest and open-necked shirt sauntered out from the wings, it was April in Paris and the giant stage was a boulevard: for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, Yves Montand is once again on tour in America...
Until the Boston Area Police Emergenes Radio Network (BAPERN) system was switched on at 8 a.m. the University department only had direct radio contact with the Cambridge Police. The new system, installed at a cost of $280.000, allows Harvard to monitor and broadcast to all police agencies in the metropolitan area bounded...
University Police Chief Saul I. Chatin said yesterday that the radio link with the Boston department should improve protection at the Medical and Business Schools. Contact with the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) police should aid patrols along Memorial Drive, he added...
...high finance have sometimes seemed inseparable over the past two decades. If the dogged substitution of price for quality has defied good sense and good taste, fiction has been a major beneficiary. Yale-educated Michael Thomas, who at 46 has had successful careers in both milieus (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lehman Brothers), has distilled from the darker lunacies of these worlds a novel of crackling humor and mordant observation. Its bigger-than-Barron 's protagonist is Oilman Buford ("Bubber") Gudge IV, who has been content to nurse his multibillion-dollar fortune in the Texas Panhandle until lust...