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...downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, Nicolo Difilipantonio, 70, fled into the street-and was killed by chunks of roofing that fell from the aged building. The mission's 200 other occupants were unhurt; they remained inside. In Sylmar, near the quake's epicenter in the San Gabriel Mountains, Linda Daniheux, 25, remained in bed -and died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton Gonne, 45, were crushed when a concrete overpass of the Golden State Freeway dropped squarely...
...tremors did not occur along the San Andreas fault or any of the active faults that are associated with it. They originated some distance away, along a swath roughly 20 miles long, running at approximately right angles to the big fault. It is in this area that the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, meet the San Fernando Valley. Judging by ruptures in this surface and readings from their instruments, scientists concluded that the mountains had either pushed a few feet over the valley, or that the valley had thrust underneath the mountains. However they occurred, the sudden, complex...
...Gabriel the painter is its central character, a loquacious and unrecognized artist who buys time to paint his apocalyptic visions by turning out cheap still lifes of Chianti bottles to order for a downtown trash shop. He is the stoned descendant of Joyce Carey's Gulley...
...country of the mad, the creative loon is king. Around Gabriel cluster amiable freaks, all of whom, like him, define a precarious balance by opposing their craziness to the paranoia of the outside city. There is Walter, an amateur Polish historian, whose East Village flat is filled to the ceiling with grimy bales of newspaper, all destined to be cross-indexed and given to a university in Warsaw; Dulcie Kraft, a Texas scientologist; Beamer, a novelist writing a book about morning sickness, "privately printed and sent only to monasteries"; Orville, a pot dealer and "passing student of Eastern cosmic consciousness...
Does the list seem familiar? It is. But if Newlove applies his Instant Identifreak Kit too patly and produces some characters who are hardly more than bundles of attributes, many of his human inventions swell like bullfrogs from the sheer pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves...