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...Hooray for the demise of glass-boxed Mondrians, and hello to Robert Venturi's "linguistic" variety...
...Hooray to Frank Trippett for his Essay, "New Sentimental Journey" [Jan. 30]. Fortunately, he has merely predicated what we romanticists have always (albeit secretly) predicted-that the pendulum would inevitably swing back, in our favor...
...Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year...
...buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, puts on the show at local schools and community meetings -and then asks for cleanup suggestions. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has belatedly appointed a task force...
...Hooray for Anita Bryant! I agree: enough is enough. What next after gay rights? Exhibitionists' rights. Rapists' rights. Child molesters' rights. Necrophiliacs' rights. Perversion is perversion is perversion...