University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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On Vine Street a white limousine stops at the corner for a light. The chauffeur sees a woman, her clothing soiled, a bag on her arm, poking through the trash with an old umbrella. She looks up, but their eyes do not meet. On the Santa Monica interchange, a girl in a bikini rolls down the top of her convertible and her blonde hair blows out behind her, scattering gold on the white lines of the freeway. In the mornings the businessmen march solemnly in brown suits to thirty-story edifices of concrete and chrome on Wilshire Blvd. On the twenty-third floor a young woman in glasses places a rose in a Smuckers jar. And, oh, those warm summer nights. At the Griffith Observatory, couples in blue jeans sit out on the lawn, holding hands, watching the stars keep time to ' The Clash. ' A rock and roll kaleidoscope. And here in the middle is us. UCLA. Los Angeles within Los Angeles. A life within a life. Us. 6 OPENING

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Well, everyone was tired of pizza at the Coop, and the mush at the Treehouse, and so someone, (I think it was Mark) said, well, let ' s go to Westwood and see what ' s going on. West Los Angeles. The Village. A street singer with nicks in his guitar sings imitation Elvis, while the sun fades into orange, the moon rising in the east. His guitar case is open and a student in khakis with long brown braids throws change into his open guitar case. More students gather around, and start to clap their hands and smile. This is Westwood, and everything ' s all right. The Mann Bruin ' s playing Pink Floyd ' s ' The Wall ' and the line curls around the edge of the theatre and into the alley. At the croissant shop across the street, onlookers smile with bemused tolerance; the world forever divided between Pink Floyders and non-Pink Floyders. 8 OPENING