Word: metropolitanism
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...Metropolitan District Commission, which supplies water for most eastern Massachusetts cities and towns. Wednesday launched a major water-conservation drive, citing reduced water levels in its Quabbin Reservoir, now at 85 per cent of capacity...
Pruning the program won't destroy the big institutions; the Metropolitan Opera or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York may be closed a little more often and offer fewer new productions or exhibits. But most such organizations receive less than 10 per cent of their funding from the government, so they'll just have to fund raise a little harder...
Meanwhile, the killer sits alone in his cell at Rikers Island, reading and watching TV. The only other inmate in the 13-cell maximum-security row is Craig Crimmins, 22, convicted of murdering a violinist at the Metropolitan Opera House. The two no longer speak; Chapman is still furious that Crimmins called him a "nut case" last month...
...Nibelung, in both English and German cycles. The San Diego Opera stages a Verdi festival, producing the relatively obscure works-this year Un Giorno di Regno-along with the more familiar ones. Usually defined as companies other than the so-called Big Five-New York's Metropolitan, the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Opera-the regional groups are distinguished by their employment of American artists and even American composers. Last season the more than 60 regional companies in the U.S. attracted 49% of its opera audiences...
...they nestled in his jumbled collection of pictures, books, antiques and objets d'art. Then in 1966 an art historian friend recognized the paintings in a book on artwork that had been lost or destroyed in Germany during World War II. Soon the finding was authenticated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the paintings were 1499 portraits of a Nuremberg couple, Hans and Felicitas Tucher, by the German master Albrecht Dürer. They had disappeared in 1945 from safe-keeping at Schwarzburg Castle near Weimar during the American occupation. By 1969 Eliçofon was embroiled...