Word: metropolitanism
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...group awkwardly styled the neo-Impressionists. Seurat has always been seen as the inventor, Signac as the follower. This unfairly simple view should, with luck, be dispelled by the retrospective of some 120 oils, watercolors and drawings by Signac on view through Dec. 30 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its only venue...
...rightly see that hard work doesn't spell success anymore?their dutiful parents are facing the gloomiest economic times since World War II?so what's the point? Why not go out and play?for several days and nights at a time? But running away to Shibuya or other metropolitan party hubs can be anything but a harmless lark. Some young runaways have been murdered. The lure of prostitution, to earn spending money or just to find a warm place to sleep, is hard to avoid considering the vast network of predators trained to sweep young girls off the streets...
...hour) is mentioned hardly at all. The call for a wage that allows workers to live in Cambridge, present in some of the movement’s early op-ed pieces and public statements, has shifted to a discussion of “the annual cost of living in metropolitan Boston...
...native England--but American audiences were starting to catch up with him even before the MacArthur-related publicity afterburner kicked in. His Rachmaninoff performance at Lincoln Center has been rescheduled for Jan. 8, and one of his songs (he composes too) will be premiered at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday...
...dangerous can an Afro comb and a plastic bottle of hot sauce be? When Officer Louis Pepe came by cell No. 6 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1, 2000, he was distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened comb was plunged like a bayonet through his eye and 2 1/2 in. into his brain. The man in the cell, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, then allegedly took the keys from the paralyzed Pepe and began to wander down the hall. Guards stopped Salim, and he didn't get away...