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This, to put it mildly, is not an unfamiliar trope. It is almost as old as Los Angeles itself -- the other side of its perennial cultural struggle between civic boosterism and social derangement. It has been implanted in the city's self-image for at least 60 years, reflected in innumerable films, novels, detective stories, photography. It begins long before Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, 1939, with its Ensor-like cast of pathological misfits and its painter, Tod Hackett, dreaming of his apocalyptic canvas of the burning of the city -- a vision that would be made real...
Despite his family's wealth and power, Brown was unfamiliar with the high life that he was confronted with upon returning home with status near a Hollywood celebrity...
Postal officials maintained yesterday that the long lines are a result of customers unfamiliar with the new facilities and not because of flaws in the design...
...injury and unfamiliar weather conditions led to a loss by the second-ranked Crimson at the hands of unseeded Rice, 5-4, at the H.E.B. College Tennis Team Tournament...
...cast, but he needs better writers. Speaking at Atlanta's Spelman College, surrounded by uniformed veterans (hint, hint), he declared that if Clinton got the nomination, Bush would open him up like a soft peanut. He later corrected himself, substituting a boiled peanut, only to seem stuck on an unfamiliar Southernism...