Word: metropolitanism
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Nowhere does a system need rehabilitation more than New York City. Its subways are a filthy, Dantesque netherworld, plagued not merely by delays (one train in every ten is late) but by violent crime (18 murders, 12,000 muggings, robberies and other felonies in the past year). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) carries one of every six people using public transit in the entire nation. The city cannot function without it. During a ten-day strike last spring, New York firms lost about $100 million in sales each workday...
...stage. At the New York City Opera, Attila has taken the State Theater in a blaze of barbaric splendor: the composer's ninth opera, it stands revealed as an uneven but vivid work. Those with more traditional tastes in Verdi could go across Lincoln Center to the Metropolitan Opera, which last week introduced a handsome new production by Tanya Moiseiwitsch of La Traviata...
...reform the system. I think we are in line for an overhaul of our federal superstructure, reducing the number of states to 20 or 30. It's something to look into, considering how many levels of government are required to deal with all the problems in the metropolitan areas of the country such as New York, Washington and Weirton-Steubenville...
...York's Metropolitan Museum, the drawings of Leonardo
...incomparable interest, not least because they include so many of Leonardo's most developed studies of inanimate nature-plants, landscapes, the effects of weather and light. A group of 50 of these nature studies (including his "deluge" drawings) is now on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, after having been shown during the winter at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif. To these, the Met has added a group of Leonardo drawings and some related prints from its own collection. The show is curated by the leading active expert in Leonardo studies...