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...setting. There are no romantic sidewalk cafes or sunsets over the Eiffel Tower in this Paris. Instead, the viewer enters a world of neon and cellophane and leather--a world in which vast underground garages contain video palaces and cats have names like "Ayatollah" and everyone lives in a loft. And yet, what makes this punked-out environment intriguing is that it contains many small reminders of the old Paris. Jules first meets Alba when he watches her shoplift records in a discomat. She is dressed completely in plastic and carries a portfolio of naked self-portraits. She says things...
Linda Huey, chief organizer of the Four Point Channel Art Community Action Group, is less sanguine about the future. Sitting in her spacious studio-loft on the sixth floor of an almost deserted warehouse, just blocks away from the galleries, the voices her fears about what she calls "the largest art community Boston has ever seen"; "Initially, all us artists were attracted to the cheap space and perfect artistic environment found in old commercial buildings--things you just don't find in non-commercial sites. All we wanted to do was quietly work on our art by ourselves without being...
Unlike everyone else, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers sees the live play in slow motion. He sees the receiver he will throw the ball to, and he sees the linebacker he must loft the ball over, and, on those fortunate occasions when he is not lying on the ground by this time, he sees the ball in flight. Joe's first target on this play, Freddie Solomon, was covered. Wide Receiver Dwight Clark stationed himself at the back of the end zone and then went sliding in the direction Joe was darting. Under pressure and leaning...
Though government officials have raided hundreds of sweatshops in recent months, they admit that they are losing the battle. Businessmen simply move from one location to another. Says California Labor Investigator Joe Razo: "We may go into the same loft building five or six times in a month and find new occupants every time." Illegal aliens rarely report their bosses for fear of being arrested and deported. Even if the sweatshop operator is caught, the penalty he receives-usually just an order to pay the back wages owed his workers-does not stop him from setting up a new operation...
...accommodations are now available even in New York City. Most are bedrooms in apartments in such diverse sites as the loft quarter of SoHo and Roosevelt Island in the East River, which is reached from midtown Manhattan by way of a scenic 3½-min. tram ride. Urban Ventures Inc., a booking service for New York B & Bs, has about 120 listings, nearly all in Manhattan. The most desirable rooms are also centrally located. "What they really want," jokes Mary McAulay, Urban Ventures' co-owner, "is a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Rates for New York...