Word: metropolitanism
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...megaton nuclear warhead, 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, detonated over Boston would destroy everything within a four-mile radius. Up to ten miles away from ground zero, fire storms would devastate all buildings and trees. Of the 3 million inhabitants of metropolitan Boston, 2.2 million would be killed outright. Almost every survivor would be maimed, burned or in shock. Of the 6,000 physicians in the area, only 900 would be fit enough to treat the injured. In time, survivors would develop new and virtually incurable ailments, such as severe radiation poisoning...
...went into everything you could imagine-Bahai, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, vegetarianism ... well, that didn't last long. I have to eat meat." She studied art, acting and dance; she also took singing lessons ($50 a shot, at a time when a quarter bought a meal) from Metropolitan Opera Coach Estelle Liebling. The remnants of the drama and dance lessons can still be seen in Nevelson's carriage and in the ceremonious gestures of her hands when she talks...
...woman. Thus, in one of the most celebrated curatorial blunders in recent memory, she was left out of a vast survey show intended to define all that had been important in U.S. art since the war, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-70," mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since its curator, Henry Geldzahler (now New York City's commissioner of cultural affairs), was a creature of mode and whim with no marked convictions of his own, the exclusion of Nevelson may be said to have reflected a general consensus of dealers and formalist critics...
...evacuation of the area surrounding the plant was ordered, in large part for fear of what "it would do to the industry." But Gov. Richard Thornburgh did advise small children and pregnant women to leave, mainly because he worried about the political repercussions of inaction. And all the while, Metropolitan Edison lied to the state, to the NRC and to the press...
...ways to work. As for the merchants, there is more to life than buying socks. Boston residents use the T on Sundays to get to church, to visit museums or basketball games, to see friends. An end to Sunday service is directed at them, the poorest people in the metropolitan area, and not at the suburbanites who retreat to their station wagons for the weekend anyway...