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Under the Palms. Nor is Angeleno architecture the appalling hodgepodge of the bland, the garish and the awful that its critics claim. Packed with masterworks by architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Irving Gill and Richard Neutra, it ranks with the world's best, Banham believes. His conclusion: L.A. is not a horrible harbinger of how the auto and the single-family house can wreck other U.S. cities. Rather, the city of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable...
...milk cans or owls, and squat concrete structures garnished with billboards or slathered with ornamentation. But he detests the proliferation of glum office towers that are "not Los Angeles but memorials to a certain insecurity of spirit among timid souls who cannot bear to go with the flow of Angeleno life...
...consequence, Columbia Pictures decided to hold it at arm's length, a flop to be forgotten. A flop, perhaps. Forgotten, hardly. For The Comic contains the most ambitious performance of Van Dyke's career, a resolutely unglamorous close-up of a string-necked, right-wing Angeleno, faded by sun and circumstance...
...California-bound business executive walked into a branch of the First National City Bank in Manhattan last week and picked up a pair of tickets for a Hollywood Bowl concert. A Manhattan-bound Angeleno bought tickets for the Broadway hit Oh! Calcutta! at a Beverly Hills hotel. Both made their purchases through computer networks that are striving to bring the box office closer to the increasingly choosy buyer...
Though Mayor Yorty has installed a Spanish-speaking complaint bureau in city hall, Los Angeles' government is still overwhelmingly Anglo in makeup. Last week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot...