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...hasn't been. Rape is a crime with a long history and it appears a promising future. Like most problems that won't go away it lacks glamour. It is dismissed as a women problem and it is ignored until a particularly brutal incident like this New Bedford rape brings it with a crash into our headlines and consciousness...
...perpendicular to the guns, the pursuit of one profession bisecting another. There is the matter of their being journalists, who as cultural figures are always accorded a special (half revered, half resented) slot in the public mind, and of their being foreign correspondents in particular, with all the folklore glamour associated with that work. There is the influence of television, which has aggrandized the whole profession. It may also be that these deaths attract notice because they serve to remind people that risk entails the possibility of failure. It is acutely shocking to learn that risk takers can lose...
...clichés describe a small part of L.A., but they are apt enough. The place does have eccentric glamour. The enormous HOLLYWOOD sign stuck on one of the Santa Monica Mountains is odd and funny. "Colonics," a regimen of recreational-cum-therapeutic enemas, is popular among regular people. On Sunset Boulevard nothing seems remarkable about the Professional Waiters School, and on Gloaming Drive in Beverly Hills, the only pedestrians are tanned joggers and dark-skinned servants. Los Angeles has more registered poodles (16,732) than any other city, and plenty of them are dyed the colors of jelly beans...
...times it seems that the spotlight at college graduations is directed not at the expectant graduates but at celebrity speakers and recipients of honorary degrees. Some of the scholarly glamour was visible last week at Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., as well as at Vassar and Yale. At Stonehill, Bianca Jagger, 38, former wife of Rock Star Mick, was awarded an honorary doctorate for humanitarian work in her native Nicaragua and in El Salvador and Honduras. Recalling her 1981 adventures as a jungle paparazzo in Honduras with two friends, she told of rescuing a group of refugee hostages from...
Displays spilled out of the main arena and into six unairconditioned tents, where conventioneers sweltered when Santa Ana winds pushed the temperature well into the 90s. Yet the heat hardly suffocated the enthusiasm. Everyone, after all, was participating in America's glamour and growth industry. As Robert Lane, president of Commodore Business Machines, observed glowingly, "The consumer just has an insatiable desire for computing at the moment...