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Acerb and iconoclastic, London's Reyner Banham occupies a special niche among critics of the man-made environment. He inspects his chosen topic -usually architecture or mass culture or both-with unblinkered eyes. Then he devastates all conventional wisdom about it. His new book, Los Angeles (Harper & Row; $6.95), is no exception. Spurning the popular pastime of condemning Los Angeles as an eyesore of shallow pretensions, Banham raises a rare intellectual voice in its favor. "Los Angeles does not get the attention it deserves," he writes. "It gets attention, but it's the attention Sodom and Gomorrah received...
...bubbles is all but irresistible. Twice since 1968, would-be deflators have pierced Harvard's bubble−but an alarm system brought maintenance crews on the double. Actually, a certain amount of leakage is desirable. "Air-supported buildings must leak," explains English Architecture Critic Reyner Banham. "They are living things. They must breathe." If they are not allowed to breathe, strange things happen: the blowers that constantly pump air into the enclosed space cause pressure to build up, and the building begins to screech, pull and tug. To those within the bubble, says Banham, "it's like being...
...Reyner's performance in the 177-pound class offset an otherwise frustrating day, Lee said...
...Reyner looked impressive in his initial matches, crushing his counterpart from West Point 10-2 and then pinning his rival from Ithaca...
...quarter-finals, he drew the top-seeded wrestler in the division, who had flattened Reyner 9-0 earlier in the year. This time the vastly-improved Reyner held his opponent to a 5-3 victory...