Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EDGAR DEGAS, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. If there must be blockbuster shows, this is the kind to have -- huge (more than 300 works), thought provoking and beautiful. Its like will not be seen again in our lifetime. Through...
EDGAR DEGAS, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. If there must be blockbuster shows, this is the kind to have -- huge (more than 300 works), thought provoking and beautiful. Its like will not be seen again in our lifetime. Through...
...consuming passions: the French writer Roland Barthes, the German critic Walter Benjamin, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. (In her spare time, she has directed four films abroad.) All her work aims at defining a vaporous but crucial notion, the modern sensibility. She combines a metropolitan taste, omnivorous and hard to satisfy, with a transatlantic mind, drawn to European writers and filmmakers. Often she discusses them in the European form of fragments and epigrams. "I get impatient with linear forms in which you go from a to b to c." she explains. "It takes too long. I love to go faster...
...pretty ugly," Jones said, "The Metropolitan District Commission has juridiction over the banks and will crack down...
Public authorities two weeks ago asserted that the stench would be gone in time for the Head. At that time, Leanne DelVecchio, a representative for the Metropolitan District Commission, speculated that the smell had been caused by a sewer cleaning effort by the Cambridge Department of Public Works...