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- Do Arts Spectacles Enrich Our City's Cultural Life? : Culture: A festival is a moveable beast that can suck the vitality out of an artistic community just as easily as it can make us art-smart.
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- 1990 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE NOMINEES : for the publishing year August 1, 1989 through July 31, 1990
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