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...conference championship game, Goldberg had another morale booster up his sleeve. Since his company had a contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them...
...FIXING THE HOLE IN THE B.U. CREASE--If the refs didn't demolish the tension of the game, the third-period clinic on Open Ice Surgery did. B.U. goalie Brian Durocher tantrummed for nine minutes and 30 seconds of the last period until play was stopped to fix the cavity by the right post of the Terrier cage...
...telecasts has no recourse but to bear the polysyllabic palaver. There is no way to strike back-unless you happen to be at the Sweetwater singles bar in Denver. Every Monday night a drawing is held. The winner is given a brick and the right to use it to demolish a used TV bought for the occasion each week. The winner can take aim at any of the ABC announcers, but, says Manager Gerry Brown, "most pick Cosell." Business at the Sweetwater is up fivefold on Mondays. How does Howard react to this deplorable suspension of civility, this disturbing intimation...
...ending is gaspingly melodramatic and violates the stream of plausible behavior. Maddened by Fonsia's gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem
...Prince House now stands on the site where a new $9 million biochemistry lab will be constructed next winter. The move to relocate the structure rather than demolish it arose partly from economic considerations--it should be cheaper to move the building than to replace...