CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 25, 1988 | JAMES RYAN, United Press International
Ronnie Pierson is happiest dangling by a few strands of nylon rope 90 feet above the ground. With paint brush and bucket in hand, Pierson estimates that he has climbed to the top of about 4,000 flag poles and sign posts during the last decade, laying a fresh coat or two of weather-resistant paint as he spirals downward.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 14, 1996 | BOB POOL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Today ought to be the most spectacular day of the year in downtown Los Angeles. Nearly every building, it seems, has a flagpole on its roof. And today is Flag Day. But don't look for red, white and blue to be waving from the hundreds of abandoned flagpoles that crown office buildings along Broadway or Spring Street or that top off commercial buildings in the Wilshire district or Hollywood.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 11, 1998 | DAVID GRITTEN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
"To all the people who worked on it, it was just this little film," said Simon Beaufoy, sounding decidedly dazed. "But I guess it's not just a little film anymore." Screenwriter Beaufoy was discussing "The Full Monty," the low-budget movie shot in Britain without any stars in its cast. The film, about a group of unemployed English steelworkers who turn to stripping to make money, is implausibly the underdog success story of this year's Oscars.
OPINION
June 14, 1987 | Doug Bandow, Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, was formerly a special assistant to President Reagan
The U.S. military's All-Volunteer Force has been working--and working well--for 14 years, but arguments for a draft refuse to disappear. Indeed, many Democrats, including Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a potential presidential candidate, hope to use conscription as a cheap way of demonstrating "toughness" on defense. Meanwhile, most Pentagon officials seem pleased with the volunteer force. The Army chief of staff, Gen. John A. Wickham Jr.