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...Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard? is a collection of her Sunday articles, which are sadly often hidden among gardening and coin and stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed...
...Hardly, Watson. My Private Life is directed by one Billy Wilder, a Vi ennese. From such a man one has the right to expect either gothica, like Sun set Boulevard, or antic farce, such as Some Like It Hot. Instead, we are presented with what future critics will call "Some Like It Tepid," a listless ac count of ourselves v. the Kaiser's agents. Moreover, it portrays me as inept. A lady twists me 'round her finger." "Mmmmm...
Looting and burning spread over a 20-block area along the boulevard, a main thoroughfare in the barrio where many of Los Angeles' 1,000,000 Mexican Americans live. Tear-gas grenades popped with bursts of eye-searing smoke...
Relative calm descended with darkness, but tension remained. Some 1,200 sheriff's deputies were summoned to the area. Burglar alarms echoed into the night, and red-lighted sheriff's cruisers prowled the boulevard, while small knots of angry Mexican Americans gathered along barricades set up at the side streets. More than 70 people were arrested. At least 26 demonstrators and 26 deputies were injured; one man was seriously hurt when he was shot in the head as he tried to drive through a blockade and crashed into a utility pole...
...Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard, deputies found the body of Ruben Salazar, 42, a militant Mexican-American journalist well known in the Chicano community. Salazar, for years a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Chicano-oriented television station KMEX earlier this year and continued writing a weekly Times column that often bitterly attacked racism among white Angelenos. Many of Los Angeles' Mexican Americans looked to Salazar as their spokesman and interpreter to the Anglos. There is a notable new militancy among Chicanos, inspired by the successes of Cesar Chavez in organizing California's farm workers...