Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Some of the only exciting drama of the afternoon came in John Havens's 3-1 win over Bob Hanson at the number two slot. Havens won the crowd with his court antics, and then proceeded to demolish Hanson with his powerful game...
...Dilemma. In fact, he offers no answers to this defiant dilemma. But he regards Appalachia as a microcosm of America. Unless deterioration can be stopped here, we will have proved ourselves an ungoverning and ungovernable people. If greed-and-need continues to dictate, Caudill predicts, strip mines will next "demolish the West as a viable ecosystem...