Word: metropolitanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...fill other jobs on the show, Shanks has been talking to such nonelectronic types as Georgia State Senator Julian Bond about covering politics, Astronomer Carl Sagan about handling science segments and former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Hoving about reporting on culture. Shanks has signed French Documentary Maker Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity) to film reports from Europe and former Esquire Editor Harold Hayes to oversee the editorial content. In a confidential memo to his bosses, Shanks wrote that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless, and its 14-minute pieces nowadays often seem too long." He promised...
...this era it seems a waste for Luciano Pavarotti to undertake such a vehicle, as he did last week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera. The commanding tenor today, he can do a great many things wonderfully well. Some of them, like spinning out a legato line or singing a high C, are displayed in La Favorita. As an actor Pavarotti can be funny or tragic (both in La Bohème), or a careless aristocrat (the Duke in Rigoletto). But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb. Unfortunately, that is required of Fernando, the hero...
...American Jewish Congress-New England Region and the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston sponsored the conference in cooperation with the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association