Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's no doubt that the executive's final choice was a wise one. "With Elbaz," says Richard Martin, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, "we are witnessing the arrival of a great talent." Elbaz and McCartney won more good reviews for their fall collections, shown in March. He featured luxurious skirt suits accented with fur or pink; she offered more alluring pants and rich dresses of blue satin...
...report from NYC: the city was crawling with Harvard peeps--from the Bill Viola exhibit at the Whitney, to the Metropolitan Opera, to downtown shopping Meccas. The NYC cook kidz, clad in de rigeur black, chattered at downtown hot spot Moomba, overhearing cell phone conversation about West Coast casting, Oscar gossip and the upcoming Seventh on Sixth fashion shows in Bryant Park. As ever, the eight dollar martini called for "drinks at the bar with my American Express," as Wyclef puts...
...Bible is full of men falsely accused and persecuted, and the Rev. Henry Lyons, minister of St. Petersburg's Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church and head of the powerful National Baptist Convention, USA, says he is one of them. While he admits moral lapses, he says the 82-page arrest affidavit served on him on Ash Wednesday, full of charges of racketeering and grand theft, is the devil's work. In the only interview since then, Lyons, 56, told TIME he was a man at peace--"I can sleep comfortably again"--and ready to fight. "My daddy was a strong Baptist...
...incoming asteroid is composed largely of iron, a nearby or even a surface explosion would present no problem. But if the asteroid is rocky, a blast, particularly an ill-planned one, might well shatter it into chunks, each a potential danger to a terrestrial region or metropolitan area...
...Susan McDougal, former wife of Jim McDougal, from the Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles