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...impermanence of everything from buildings to relationships, etc. But the PR hype about Welcome to L.A. proved true in at least this one sense: Rudolph has carefully omitted all the stale cliches about the place and coined a couple of possible new ones in the process. There are no smog-hazed sunsets, no bronzed California girls in hiphugger jeans, no West Coast crazies. In their place, we only have genuine human beings grappling as best they can with the unkind vicissitudes of life and the darker side of the human condition. The film may not necessarily uplift, but it will...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...
When everyone else in the University is down sailing the bounding main somewhere off Florida, popping open a Budweiser or three as they head their Sunfishes into a friendly southern sunset, there will still be a few hardy souls braving the Cambridge smog for the sake of real maritime glory. For the Harvard and Radcliffe sailing teams, spring break won't be much of a break at all--just another chance to prove their mettle as they head off in pursuit of some post-season championship silverware...
...have entered the mainstream of America. We're already complaining about the traffic congestion, and it won't be long before we'll have smog and pollution to contend with. It's a good feeling not to be apologetic about being a Southerner, but it's not the same South. We've lost our character, but I guess that's the price of progress...
...midwinter cold snap hit South Africa last week, bringing snow to some areas and subfreezing temperatures everywhere. Over a number of the black townships that are often wreathed in coal-fire smog, there arose, too, the smoke and flames of arson and the swirling white clouds of police tear gas. By week's end, at least 34 blacks had been killed and 150 injured in renewed rioting across the country. After the June toll of 176 dead in Johannesburg's Soweto township, the eruption of violence raised anew the question of whether South Africa can avoid outright racial...