Word: metropolitanism
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...Building's buyer was Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the nation's second biggest, which has lately been pouring large hunks of its $46 billion in assets into real estate deals around the country. In addition to acquiring the Pan Am Building, the insurance company is investing $245 million in Houston's Allied Bank Plaza and $110 million in Chicago's One South Wacker tower. Both are now under construction. Explains Metropolitan Chairman Richard Shinn: "We're looking for protection , against inflation...
...been studying the possibility of parting with its building since last February, but the deal was finally accomplished only last month during a secret two-tier bidding operation. Finalists were allowed to put in sealed bids after agreeing to the initial suggested price of $325 million. Among them: Metropolitan Life, the Trump Organization, a Manhattan developer, and Olympia & COLBURN & York, a, Toronto leal estate firm. The hopeful buyers or their emissaries all hand-carried their offers to the offices of Landauer Associates, which just happened to be conveniently located in the Pan Am Building...
...building that it presently occupies at about 30% below the current rate for prime New York office space. Says Losing Bidder Donald Trump: "The deal was extremely generous to Pan Am, but after ten or 15 years, it will probably turn out to be a good deal for Metropolitan." The insurance company is already happy with its proud tower. Says Metropolitan's Shinn: "In terms of prestige, location and quality of tenants, there is no more attractive building in the City of New York...
...disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fought a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way? Christopher Reeve, of course. Faster than a speeding bullet, Reeve finished making Superman II and leaped to Williamstown, Mass., for a summer-stock revival of the 1928 classic, The Front Page. He may have ducked into a phone booth to change to period costume, but he has not left journalism. As Hildy Johnson, not-so-mild-mannered reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, he fights a never-ending battle to prevent truth from getting...
...writer doesn't help much. He has no sense for dialogue, and cripples the film's pace with a number of curiously inert scenes featuring stiff, unbelievable talk. Then there is a long wordless sequence, a ludicrous, halting flirtation and pick-up in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, drawn out to run 15 minutes in which DePalma (like Kubrick) deploys a steadicam camera, swimming and veering through the chambered rooms, using a subjective panning shot to cover an arc of space that the character, in fact, could take in at a glance. (The device amounts to a kind...