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AFTER AN interminable intermission, the drunken crowds are corraled back into the theatre. It would take a Richter-shaking song to wake this bunch. Wisely, Bravin, Chase, and Sagal have placed "Solong, Forever" where it is. Easily the most rousing number in the show, it's a stirring an-them to profit and sleaze...
...only three paintings in the show, none among his best. Why this should be so is a mystery; but it is hard not to suspect that art-market pressures have been playing on the curators, since nearly all the recent artists in the show except Kiefer and Gerhard Richter (also ill-represented, and only with early work) are in the stable of one German dealer, Michael Werner...
...Ring of Fire, an earthquake-prone region around the Pacific rim, present a potential hazard to UCLA: the southern San Andreas fault, the Newport-Inglewood fault, and the Santa Monica fault. There is a 50 percent chance that a major earthquake--registering a minimum of eight on the Richter scale--will occur in the next 20 years at the San Andreas fault, the report said...
DIED. Charles F. Richter, 85, pioneer seismologist who between 1932 and 1935 helped devise the Richter scale, universally used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes; of coronary-artery disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Richter's interest in earthquakes was so great, he had a seismograph installed in his living room. In his final days, he avidly followed news reports on the Mexico City temblors from his hospital...
...city officials now estimate that about 2,500 buildings were destroyed or badly damaged in the original quake and a heavy (7.5 on the Richter scale) second temblor 36 hours later. Many of the buildings that came crashing down were constructed of brick or concrete rather than structural steel. That led to charges by several local critics last week that corrupt building practices had been a major factor in the calamity. The government promised an investigation...