Word: metropolitanism
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DIED. Edward V. Jones, 71, architect and interior designer who carried out authentic period restorations at the White House (including the Oval Office), the State Department reception and drawing rooms (taking inspiration from 19th century Philadelphia houses, 18th century Virginia interiors and the notebooks of Thomas Jefferson), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; of a heart attack; in Albany...
Even if Puccini had written the score, it would be hard to imagine sadder sounds emanating from the Metropolitan Opera. First the Met postponed its season premiere, a performance of Turandot, because of contract disputes with its unions. Then last week, the Met's management officially canceled the 1980-81 season. Though the decision was not irrevocable, every day the impasse continued made it more likely that the U.S.'s greatest opera company would find a year erased from its history...
...certainly true, as the British Museum's director David Wilson remarks in the catalogue preface to "The Vikings," the big show of Norse artifacts and relics that opened last week at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, that the Vikings have had a bad press. That is what happens when you fall foul of Irish reviewers. No people in Western history, perhaps, had more of a reputation for mayhem and brutishness. Their longships ranged from Greenland to Byzantium and Kiev; they reached America 500 years before Columbus; and virtually everywhere they went, their greed and implacable cruelty stank...
...Metropolitan's show, imported after a successful five-month run at the British Museum, offers us a different sort of Viking: the monster chez lui, a more conscientious and stolid fellow, the rude ancestor of the modern Volvo executive. He does not even have a horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against...
WITH Annie Hall, Woody Allen created a film for anyone who calls the New York metropolitan area "home." With Manhattan, he recreated a hilariously familiar world for those who call that stubborn borough's East Side "home." But with Stardust Memories, he has made a film for that lone neurotic New Yorker who calls Woody Allen's apartment "home." It is cold, uninviting and spiteful, a brooding flipside to Fellini's 8 1/2, a masturbating-cousin to Fosse's All That Jazz. It is autobiographical, as all his films have been autobiographical, but Stardust Memories is repulsively self-conscious, full...