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...anomaly for Los Angeles' thriving Channel 34. An affiliate of SIN (the Spanish International Network), KMEX tops two of the city's three major network affiliates in reaching young adults during certain important time periods. "When I came to this station in 1963, I was told it was a dead-end business because Hispanics would assimilate," says General Manager Daniel Villanueva. "But our audience has done nothing but grow...
Hollein has flouted the fetishes of dead-end, blank-box modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade...
While Mondale's appeal is immeasurably strengthened by the dead-end approach implict in a continuation of the Reagan Revolution, it stands on its own as compassionate and responsible economic policy. Mondale would restore the cuts in social spending. He would pay for these social obligations to the poor, the sick, and the elderly through, mainly, a forthright pruning of the Pentagon budget and a plan for modest tax increases. Mondale's deficits reduction plans are not without their problems, but at least he has plans, which is more than can be said of Reagan...
Perhaps the cruelest blow for would-be police mesmerizers came in 1982, when the California Supreme Court banned previously hypnotized witnesses from testifying. The decision sharply curbed the operation of the Los Angeles police department's busy hypnosis unit, whose officers now use their skills only in dead-end cases. It also cut back the activities at Los Angeles' Law Enforcement Hypnosis Institute, which, beginning in 1976, trained more than 1,000 officers from across the country in hypnotic-interrogation techniques; they in turn trained thousands more...
There's a certain amount of dead-end fatalism in Husker Du's songs: "Something I Learned Today" is an anthem to crushed ideals, while "Chartered Trips," the album"s most haunting song, expresses the futility of trying to escape the boredom and problems of everyday life...