Word: metropolitanism
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...monotone runway, with architectural models queued up to take off. The exhibition presents four current Maltzan projects, all of them located in California: two expensive residences (Leona Drive in Beverly Hills and a residence along the beach in Malibu) and the expansion of two small regional museums (the Fresno Metropolitan Museum in the agricultural town of Fresno and the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa...
Another rink operated by the Metropolitan District Commission, the Simoni is very similar to the Porazzo. The Simoni also has a snack bar at its indoor facility, but is located locally right here in Cambridge. Free; no skate rental...
...world-renowned art museums (in buildings brilliantly designed by Louis Kahn), and Louis’ Lunch, the tiny shack where, in 1900, the first hamburger was served in America. The opportunities are even more remarkable given the city’s size—in population the New Haven metropolitan area clocks in just behind such ravishing destinations as Wichita, Kan. and Wilmington...
...This helps explain why Pornpot Kannasoot, the water-quality chief of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, fidgets when he talks about the issue. He says he has tried everything within his budget to fix the problem and, so far, nothing has worked. He has dredged canals and built two new wastewater treatment plants, with two, possibly three, more in the pipeline. Despite it all, lab tests show the water in the klongs did not improve. In fact, it got worse. The press and the public didn't seem to care, says Pornpot: "People just got used to it. I could...
...critics for the raw passion in his singing but adored by rank-and-file opera buffs, who gave him bravos for such roles as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Cavaradossi in Tosca. His competitiveness sometimes took a strange form; during Puccini's Turandot at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1961, he bit a soprano on the neck because she held a high note longer than...