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Yale Class of 1982 will sponsor a 9 p.m. Saturday night party on Yale Commons for those who can bear the cold of the Hew Haven smog (a mixture of smoke and stale beer...
...progress has also brought new problems. Nowhere is this more apparent than in greater Athens, where almost one-third of Greece's 9.6 million citizens now live. Often, the ancient city is cloaked in a suffocating smog so thick that residents cannot see the Acropolis. Says Yannis Manos, who left his native village on a small Dodecanese island and today drives a battered taxi in Athens: "If I had known then what this would cost, I never would have left Patmos...
...York. However, it was so cold there that they had to move the later games--the face-off goes on until one team has a two-game lead--to Los Angeles, where it's always like summer and everyone could pretend it was August again. But then, the smog got to them, so they moved the tournament back to New York. All this was possible because of the low air fares you can get now between New York and Los Angeles...
...backpacks." There is no lack of photographers to approach landscape with intense feeling, but the feelings are not of the same kind. What happened to the old sublimities? Lost with those who believed in them: such, at least, is the message conveyed by Robert Adams' From Lookout Mountain, Smog, No. 7,1970. It has some of the traditional ingredients: the high view, the extending valley. But tourists have changed the landscape forever, imposing on it their own cretinous expressionism: thanks to the aerosol can, their names (JOE, BILL) are writ large on the rocks, reversing the order of priorities...
...drive home. A few cars got out early, but not many. Boom; the streets jammed up. The headlights below us lit up the street brilliantly, and for as far as we could see, there were backed-up cars fading slowly into the distance in a hazy coud of smog. Behind the hotel was a freeway with a tunnel, and the thing to do in L.A. when you're in a tunnel is honk your horn, so an endless echoing Waaaaaaa of automobile horns filled the air. Drivers were angry and aggressive, but none of them seemed surprised by the traffic...