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...clinic door. Police and sheriff's deputies in the past month were given everything from "sensitivity training" to drills in how to protect their back when bending over to pick up limp bodies. Barricades were erected around the clinics before dawn, so Wednesday's charge against one in the suburb of Amherst, which resulted in 194 undramatic arrests, was reduced to an exercise in crossing the street and crouching...
...utterly shocked," said Alexis Toomer '93, a native of the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, about 25 miles south of Simi Valley. "If they couldn't conclude that that was brutality and racially motivated brutality..." she said...
...just got a call from my littlebrother--they've closed the Los Angeles [district]schools for tomorrow," said Charles S. Woo '95,who lives in the San Fernando Valley suburb ofGranada Hills...
...make it strange and wonderful, the perfect folly. But something is odd about the pavilions at this exposition: unlike the unmistakably fake, giddily impermanent stage-set structures of previous world's fairs, these seem curiously normal, like buildings one might encounter in Miami or a well-to-do Arizona suburb. Over $ the past decade or two, as stylistic jags and economics have made buildings in the real world flimsier, zanier and culturally mongrelized, real-world architecture has pretty much converged with world's fair architecture, and Expo '92 can be judged by virtually the same standards by which one judges...
Despite being one of the few legendary films in history, Mrs. Miniver has not, unfortunately, lasted. Briefly, this 1942 William Wyler film follows the daily events in the life of the Minivers and their small suburb outside of London. Soon, even the harmony of the village is interrupted by German bomb, and the rest of the movie details the war's effects on Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) and her family...