Word: metropolitanism
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There was not a weak voice or wooden actor in the company. Ashley Putnam, 25, is a talented, striking new star who debuted professionally with the V.O.A. back in 1976, two months before she shared first place in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera national auditions. Her lustrous soprano voice handles high notes with authority, and her acting is good enough for Broadway. She manages to crystallize certain moments: a softened look at James (Jake Gardner) even as they feud; a coquettish triumph as queen of her ball...
...obvious reason the Times is trying to annex San Diego is that the city is California's second largest (pop. 798,000) and is expected to grow more rapidly than Los Angeles over the next several years. But the Times' 90-member metropolitan hard-news staff is already spread thin over the 464 square miles of the city of Los Angeles, and the paper was scooped by just about everybody on the biggest local story in years, the "Hollywoodgate" scandals. Otis Chandler, 50, Times publisher and vice chairman of the parent Times Mirror Co., asserts blandly: "We already...
Heading the President's K.B.L. (New Society Movement) ticket is Superwife Imelda, 48, who has served as the flamboyant, can-do governor of metropolitan Manila since 1975. The leader of the opposition party, Strength of the Nation (known as Laban, for its constant battle cry), is Marcos' bitterest political rival, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a former Liberal...
...Talese was an obscure metropolitan reporter for the New York Times in the late 1950s when he sold his first freelance magazine article, a 3,000-word profile of Boxer José Torres, to a men's adventure magazine called Argosy. His fee: $500. Talese went on to bigger things (a total of $1 million from The Kingdom and the Power and Honor Thy Father, a $600,000 advance for his major book on sex, due in 1981), but Argosy did not. It's stated top payment for an article, some 20 years later, was still...
...Ecumenical Patriarchate has had great difficulty operating as an international Orthodox center. Turkey has shut down the patriarchate's press and its once renowned seminary. The regime has tightly controlled overseas travels of the Rum clergy. Last September, officials even yanked the passport of Metropolitan Meliton, the see's chief envoy, just as he was leaving for talks at the Vatican. Meliton is also engaged in crucial negotiations for a historic Great Synod of the world's Orthodox bishops...