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...show business capital of the world. The entire area was once a sprawling back lot belonging to 20th Century Fox; a large section of it remains the studio's home. On a clear day, by Los Angeles standards, the Hollywood Hills can be seen peeking through the smog to the north. A few blocks east, Century City becomes Beverly Hills, where many of the President's former film colleagues reside...
...gesture of homage to an esteemed original. In fact it does not agree that any image has more authority than any other. It is a response to a culture of reproduction. Its posture is a melange of acquiescence and mild pessimism: acquiescence in the thick smog of images now dumped on the eye by "high" and "low" culture alike, pessimism about painting's ability to pierce or dispel it with authentically rooted meanings...
Cynics should run for cover. Anyone for whom the USA for Africa project has assumed a nearly impenetrable smog of sanctimony will be hard pressed to clear the air. All right, everyone got sore at Prince for not jumping in. And yes, Waylon Jennings walked out of the session, but he was bushed and besides joked later about his best friend: "That recording studio wasn't big enough for me and Willie Nelson...
...bright material radiated. To Bradford Smith, head of the Voyager imaging team, the spots were evidence that meteorite impacts had pulverized the gray surface, exposed an underlying layer of ice and spewed it out in all directions. The haze covering the Uranian north polar area,* he suggested, may be smog--not unlike the Los Angeles variety--resulting from a photochemical reaction caused by sunlight acting upon gases in the planet's atmosphere...
...even more remarkable dimension: they worked, and worked almost flawlessly. That is not the way they were supposed to go. The Soviets and more than a dozen Communist countries stayed away, suggesting that the Games would end in terrorism and ruin. Some said that the Los Angeles smog would choke the runners, that the extra traffic would bring the freeways to a fuming standstill, that the Soviet boycott would turn the Games into a * financial disaster and render them athletically meaningless. But nothing of the kind occurred...