Word: metropolitanism
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...with immense wealth, with kings demanding daily bulletins on his health. By modern standards, of course, Rubens' public was quite small. The number of people who had heard of Rubens' work when he was alive would probably not make up a week's attendance at the Metropolitan Museum. But they were the people who owned and ran Europe. Few of Rubens' paintings, except the altarpieces-the cherub-borne Madonnas rising into the infinite blue gauze of heaven, the squirming cascades of rosy, tormented flesh in hell, the marmoreal dead Christs and grandly virile Apostles-were meant...
...night of the blackout, the New York metropolitan area was sweltering under a blanket of hot, humid air. With air conditioners whirring everywhere and electrical load high-though still far below the levels expected later this summer-Con Ed was importing from neighboring utilities about one-third of the electricity it was delivering to its customers. That in itself was not unusual. In the battle to keep its rates from soaring even higher. Con Ed has lately been buying more and more electricity from nearby companies that can provide cheaper power. Yet what made Con Ed especially vulnerable that soggy...
Edward G. Bridges, assistant to the commissioner of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which supervised the celebration, refused to say whether there was selective enforcement of the laws at the celebration, but Frederick L. Smith, one of the nearly 300 police patrolling the event, said, "Low profile, that's what the boss said...
...large white bull as she prepared to jog nude around the Central Park Reservoir to popularize physical fitness. Amid a crackle of thunderbolts, the bull leaped an 8-ft. chain-link fence with Fawcett-Majors on its back, and swam off with her in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Witnesses said that the animal bellowed several times in what seemed to be Greek. Park authorities were investigating the disappearance...
America is currently busy boasting two operatic institutions: The Metropolitan Opera and Luciano Pavarotti. The former recently displayed its wares up in Boston at the Hynes Cattleyard, euphemistically known as an "auditorium" and blasphemously used as an opera house. The latter has just fattened his already ample public reputation--while his belly shrinks on a rigid diet--with the television broadcast of "Boheme" brought to us straight from the artistic stage of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Now that the country is high on an opera binge (where else in the world can a prima donna double...