Next L.A. / A Look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis
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“It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that, every booze party ends in a fight. . . . Anything can happen.”R aymond Chandler, in his story “Red Wind. “
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