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...which opens to the public this week, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has risen from architectural hodgepodge to full-blast cacophony. Where but in Tinseltown could you see such an overlay of styles? First, the flaccid institutional moderne of the original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce Goff...
...Third World countries, government officials were loath to criticize Citicorp's new hard-nosed policy. Brazil's Finance Minister, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, said he saw the bank's move as a prudent shoring up of its foundations. Said a top Argentine official: "It's the first sign that U.S. ^ banks are prepared to share the burden of the debt crisis." Other foreign moneymen welcomed Citicorp's action because it might mean that all U.S. banks will start treating Third World debt under the same terms as Japanese, West German and Swiss banks, which have already established substantial loss reserves...
...Brazilian Finance Minister had hoped to pressure foreign banks into drastic concessions on the country's $108 billion in debts. But last week Funaro, who proved unable to rein in Brazil's runaway economy, was dumped by President Jose Sarney in favor of the more pragmatic Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, 52, an economist and businessman. Bresser Pereira promptly devalued Brazil's currency 8.5% against the U.S. dollar in an effort to boost export income, which should improve the country's ability to pay its debts...
...LACMA comes nowhere near MOCA's ensemble in architectural quality. It is hampered by its relationship -- or lack of one -- to the existing buildings. These were probably the worst of any large museum in America, a mincing trio of pseudomodernist boxes completed in 1964 by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira. When the time came, in 1981, to expand LACMA, the proper response to them would have been the bulldozer. But that would have meant closing the museum. So its trustees engaged Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, a New York firm with a name for brash, virile signature buildings heavily layered with...
Some students also sympathized with the activists. "Perhaps they went a little bit too far, but the administration hasn't given them a chance to express their feelings," said sophomore Pedro M. Pereira. "The students are desperate," he said...