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...proposed toxic-waste incinerator slated for nearby Vernon, which every year would spew some 19,000 tons of potentially health- threatening ash on their community. Why, she asks, should East Los Angeles, poverty-pocked and largely Hispanic, be subjected to this environmental atrocity? "Why not Beverly Hills or Bel...
...horizon. The old planet is sagging more than ever from its burdens of people and pollution, and it no longer takes a hydrologist or climatologist to detect it. Every American can see it in the air. You can stand with Nancy Reagan on the lawn of her sun-drenched Bel Air home above Beverly Hills and see a sinister tongue of smog lick out and engulf the office where her husband works just three miles below. Or you can walk along the low hills of North Dakota and scuff through the shifting soil that still blows against the stubble...
...unrepentant gallop into the Beverly Hills sunset. He answered about 150 questions in a Los Angeles court last Friday and Saturday, part of the leftover Iran-contra scandal that keeps snarling at his polished heels like a nasty attack dog. He had every right to repair to his bright Bel Air home, high above the smog, and have a little bit of the post-White House blues like Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter...
...world at something like $1,000 a talking minute and has been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground. He roams the 34th floor of Fox Plaza, high above Century City, trains binoculars on a tip of his Bel Air home, visible 3 miles away, and mutters dark incantations against a new high-rise going up in his field of view. He leans down with pride to show visitors the model of the Spanish-type library building to be completed in 1991 with deep vaults for his 44 million...
Soprano June Anderson, opera's newest diva, evokes comparisons to Maria Callas -- for her command of bel canto as well as her tendency to stir things...