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...REAL LOS ANGELES INtrudes itself into the palmy myth preferred by the outside world. The riot two weeks ago was such an occasion. Suddenly, La-la land -- with its beaches and movie stars, Rolls- Royces and Evian, its Italian suits and car phones, its upscale shopping malls and matching, coke-sniffing boy-girl bimbos -- was gone. In its place were wasted landscapes and hard people whose anger and alienation seemed for a while to know no bounds...
...everybody caves. Two weeks ago, Coca-Cola chairman Roberto Goizueta stood up before shareholders and defended his 1991 pay of $86 million, which included a record $80 million in stock grants, on the grounds that under his management, Coke stock had increased 1,300%. Goizueta was interrupted four times -- by thunderous applause. U.S. Surgical CEO Leon Hirsch, who earned $118 million in salary and stock incentives, maintains that he's worth it. "I'm not paid enough," he says. Since 1988, U.S. Surgical's market capitalization has, to his credit, increased 1,350%; in the past three years, shareholders have...
...year-old taste buds still weren't very mature (Pizza Hut rated higher than four star restaurants in Chinatown), but once a sip of syrupy Coke had settled the last of the perfect gravy-con-carrot-beef-potato mixture in my stomach, they recognized a new, wonderful sensation...
...kind of sad, really. The stuffed Maurice Sendak doll calls himself a "Wild Thing," but you can bet he never goes out. The dancing Coke can only dances with himself. (Besides, he needs batteries.) Our stuffed Madeleine doll is no competition. She's led a relatively sheltered life, surrounded exclusively by nuns...
...gross, filled with slop. Our mess is not slimy. It's whimsical. It's creative. It's the kind of mess we remember from childhood. We have no gnawed pizza crusts from three weeks ago, no half-filled cans of warm Coke. These are only toys; they don't smell and they don't spoil. Perhaps the Play-Doh could dry out and get stale, but we're careful to close the lids tightly. We are very sanitary with our mess...