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...Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will ban all vehicular traffic from a 1.6-mile stretch of Memorial Drive on four consecutive Sundays starting April 18, converting the roadway and adjacent bank of the Charles River into an experimental "people's park...
Steven M. Moreau said the workers employed at LRI's Brighton warehouse were demanding that the contract include a "no move provision" to prevent LRI from moving its warehouse to a location outside the metropolitan Boston area...
...pair joined forces last week for a TV show titled Sills and Burnett at the Met, a CBS special scheduled for next fall. The program features a blues and opera duet by the entertainers-and a demanding tap-dancing finale to be filmed at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. "I had my first tap lessons when I was five," explained Sills, now 46. "They were 50? an hour, and I learned four steps. We haven't used any of them...
...Metropolitan Opera used to be known as a rich, acquisitive collector of the biggest stars available. There are not so many supersingers around now, and the Met has been hiring them less frequently. Last week in its first production of Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani in almost 60 years, the company reverted to its grand old ways, presenting three top international singers-Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and Sherrill Milnes. It made a particularly satisfying, old-fashioned night at the opera...
...Colorado meet, another 14 generating stations are planned to burn coal from nearby mines. Four are already built, sending electricity by wire to consumers as distant as Los Angeles and El Paso-a cheaper and less polluting process than shipping the coal to be burned at power plants in metropolitan areas...