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Glimpes of the Past--March 15 through June 15. Somerville Museum, One Westwood Rd., Somerville...
...most segregated cities in the world -- a horizontal automobile culture sectioned off into a patchwork of ethnic and racial enclaves, all almost self-sufficient, inward turning and immiscible. The middle- and upper-middle-class whites of West Los Angeles, of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and Westwood and Brentwood and Bel-Air, drift dreamily along in the illusion that the society still belongs to them. In important ways, it does, of course. But out across the city grids lie Koreatown and Chinatown; and Watts, for so long a black enclave, is changing into a barrio. Up north on the Berkeley campus...
...immediate causes of the outbursts varied from place to place. In the Westwood district of Los Angeles two weeks ago, the trouble started when the Mann theater oversold tickets to the movie's premiere and turned away hundreds of frustrated patrons. About 800 youths went on a rampage, breaking windows and looting stores in the trendy neighborhood near the UCLA campus. It took 100 riot police 3 1/2 hours to quell the disturbance. When it was over, nine people had been arrested and 21 shops damaged...
...Angeles, about 1,500 people rioted when the Mann Westwood Theatre oversold tickets Friday night and turned people away. Stores in the Westwood Village district were looted during a 2-hour melee. Nine people were arrested...
...telephone message at the Mann Westwood said all shows of New Jack City have been canceled...