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EDITORIAL A PORTRAIT OF WASTE.(Editorial)(Editorial)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 20000823
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GREAT comedy, whether it's Aristophanes or Chaucer or ``The Simpsons,'' is itself an art form. And it is the one art in which Los Angeles city government excels, with its never-ending display of incompetence.

That's not to say City Hall doesn't have its share of other kinds of art, such as paintings and sculptures, but these tend to get lost - literally - in its ongoing comedy of errors.

Even though L.A. has a multimillion-dollar art collection, few Angelenos are ever likely to see much of it, as the Daily News recently pointed out. Most of the works sit in a dark, ...

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