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...proponents argue that the alternative is for the poor to continue to suffer from crime. South Central leaders have fought for years against police- deployment patterns, which are based on a formula that considers property crimes roughly equal to violent crimes against people. This may please Porsche owners in Bel Air, but it does little to console the victims of shootings in Watts. The policy is under review by an outside consultant...
...American illusion that art is socially therapeutic brought to its apex. Medicean longings inflate the breast of the lowliest junk-bond zillionaire. Whole busloads of fledgling collectors shuttle on regular tours, shepherded by docents, art-investment consultants and "educators" of every stamp, among the private collections of Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Malibu. What other commodity offers such a blend of transcendence and fiscal display? Buying is a spectator sport, and the art gallery the Nautilus center of the soul. But in Movieland, the heat of egotism creates a desire for equal screen credit. Where else would a museum herald...
...alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some whiff of the thrill associated with Henry Dreyfuss's bullet-nosed locomotives or Norman Bel Geddes' flying wings. Your trousers shorten as you look...
...supplied one of the core images of American art deco: the conquest of the air, by buildings and machines -- the taming of vertical space. The aircraft, with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number 9, 1933, which was never built but which launched a thousand period spaceships into the popular epic of the future...
...from bird watchers to parents who do not want to miss Junior's first step as they try to focus the camera. Whatever the attraction, many dealers have had to struggle to meet the demand. "We can't keep enough Maxxums in stock," says Michael Schreiber, a salesman for Bel Air Camera in Los Angeles...