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...Reagan will fall like a crowbar... awfully fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Mondale | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...with Reagan] in the next month. For one thing, I think we already see John Anderson fading. That will strengthen us because we'll then have only one opponent. The other thing is that I believe when Reagan starts to fall, he'll fall like a crowbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Mondale | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...North Hollywood parking lot, yanks it from the back seat and stabs it helter-skelter while the gods guffaw. But Sellars' production fails because it attempts too much, his ambition exceeds his grasp. Far from letting the play breathe, he beats it about the neck with a crowbar, adding abrasions and welts until he obscures his own intentions. By any interpretation, Lear should not be an interminable, mired melodrama set in a tempest of technology. Sellars' Lear is a tragedy of excess...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...themselves with pistols, rifles or shotguns and sat up all night by candlelight in their stores. Surprisingly few shots were fired. Indeed, there were remarkably few fatalities during the disturbances: three people died in fires, and in Brooklyn, a drugstore owner gunned down a man who was brandishing a crowbar at him while leading 30 youths past the store's accordion-like security fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLACKOUT: NIGHT OF TERROR | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Brushy Mountain Prison on May 3, 1971. Ray left a dummy in his cell, used tools provided by another inmate to remove a concrete block in his cell, crawled into an air chamber, ripped the bars from a ventilation fan and slipped into the prison courtyard. There, using a crowbar, he pried open a manhole cover to enter a steam tunnel leading out. But its 400° heat drove him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MOLE'S MANY ATTEMPTS | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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