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Twinkle, twinkle. The tiny white lights glitter in the ficus trees by the pool at Skybar in the Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles' latest shrine to the good life. At 10 o'clock on a weeknight, poolside is alive with people drinking and smoking and looking superb. Some are rich, but many more are having fun pretending. Five years after rioting tore this city apart, they are lounging on huge, posh communal beds, sipping their drinks, floating in the bubble of this long good run and wondering, some of them, when it will burst. They thought the crunch was coming when...
Friday afternoon, I had the opportunity to visit everyone's favorite inaccessible shrine to fashion, the CambridgeSide Galleria, to run a few errands. As I was leaving, I stopped by a food vendor to pick up a treat for my roommate...
...concern is for publicity for the soul of Walden Pond. I sign merely as someone who thinks strip-mining is inappropriate at a holy American shrine. --Edward L. Lynch '65 Walpole, Mass...
...streaming from American radio stations, first shocking and then energizing what was then still a devoutly conservative country. Father Charles Coughlin, a firecracker Catholic priest who pounded a broadcast pulpit from Detroit, built a virtual congregation in just four years. For tens of millions of Depression-era believers, his Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled the plug. And though there was plenty of anti-Semitism, isolationism and fear mongering in Coughlin's speeches, there was little irony: even as he used all this blessed new technology, he damned the capitalist economy...
...whites torching a black church, killing parishioners and burning its holy objects. Yet, while the tunnel received enormous coverage complete with diagrams, the desecration at Joseph's Tomb, if reported at all, merited at most a few sentences. And a similar Palestinian attempt to firebomb Judaism's third holiest shrine, Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, received in the major American press no mention at all, save one in the New York Times--in a picture caption on page...