Word: metropolitanism
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...leaves room for more concrete ideas. The Foundation proposal accepts the future responsibility to give expression to Black political goals. With its resources and its funding "relations with the several professional schools of the University, the international alumni network and the communities that surround the university in metropolitan Boston could be utilized in the search for solutions to some of the vexing problems of our age," especially, one hopes, the vexing problem of admissions and hiring of Black students and faculty on this campus. We need to change that conditional "could" to a definite "will" if affirmative action...
...Communist World Peace Congress (her name is Spanish for dove), Paloma, 31, is now recognized for her own international body. This year she was named to the International Best-Dressed list. But at the opening of a display of Ch'ing dynasty costumes at New York's Metropolitan Museum, she revealed more than an acquired palate. As she made her entrance, Paloma artfully arranged her dress to accent the family lines. Her décolletage caused almost as many tuts as a noted recent exhibition, but Paloma was unruffled. Huffed she: "It was a simple black dress...
...case, in metropolitan areas with reasonably efficient mass transit driving to work and parking a car can be onerous and expensive. Despite the general decline of commuting services, the straphanger is seldom as frazzled as the driver, who has been on hold for an hour in a traffic jam. His passenger, on the other hand, has had time to read the paper and admire the view en route...
...Fanciulla Del West--but Sondheim's score achieves little distinction. It flounders in a pool of notes instead of gushing with passion. Only the lushness of "Pretty Woman," the dissonance of "Epiphany," and the insouciance of "A Little Priest" salvage the first act from musical banality. Even here, the Metropolitan Center's gully of an orchestra pit prevents Sweeney's blazing razor attack from terrorizing even the first...
Technically, the refurbished Metropolitan Center enhances the production. Unlike Broadway where the actors often got lost on the mammoth stage, this scaled-down version of Eugene Lee's foundry set hovers overhead preventing any air from invigorating the denizens of London's sordid slums. Ken Billington's lighting generally succeeds where the score fails by sharply evoking the character's moods. Piercing spotlights heighten Sweeney's agonizing inner turmoil, while a stupefying pinkish orange haze overpowers mottled ground tones to emphasize the community's moral desolation and confusion. Flashes of sunshine intrude briefly, but the furnace's Hellish red glow...