Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dubs himself the "Menu Surgeon," says: "A menu should relate logically to the restaurant. A whimsical menu for the hip crowd, for example, or a folksy menu for the family crowd. But if someone wants something really offbeat, I might even suggest a baroque menu for a truly rundown place...
Does your Cliflie look tired and rundown these days...
...where he supervises the casting process. - Douglas Wheeler, 29, studied at Los Angeles' Chouinard Art Institute, and was strongly influenced by Irwin. In 1964 he began experimenting with lights cast onto an easel painting, soon found the canvas format constricting. He rented an old department store in the rundown beach town of Venice, and began transforming entire rooms into oases of light. Today he mounts large, square sheets of Plexiglas on the wall, paints them white, attaches neon tubes behind the edges. By some alchemy of optical illusion, this does funny things to the viewer's physical orientation...
...cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been left to rot in the past few years. Landlords are so upset at the shrinkage of their profits that last week eight organizations representing 25,000 owners begged the city to buy their buildings...
Numbers Game. Among KRLA's other adventurous approaches to the news is a sardonic feature called "Today's Totals." Sample rundown: "Three dead in traffic. One death by gunfire. Dow-Jones industrials down 4.93. The Dodgers now 23 ½ games out of first place. The Angels 16 games. Those refusing Army induction: six. Marijuana arrests: 20. High today: 82." KRLA's 14-man news staff is youthful (average age: 29) and happily, rarely takes itself very seriously. Once an announcer closed with "This has been KRLA news. For all the news, listen to KNX, KFWB or read...