The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. Los Angeles
(lawss AN -juh-luhs) City in southern California , sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles. 1 ‡ Second most populous city in the United States. 2 ‡ A center of the entertainment industry; Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles. 3 ‡ Los Angeles suffers from serious smog pollution created by industry and large numbers of automobiles. 4 ‡ The scene of the Watts Riots in 1965 and of another serious riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King. 5
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
