Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seductive and streamlined, painted with a pastel palette of flamingo pinks, pale yellows and cool blues, the tropical art deco buildings of Miami Beach delight the eye and invite the viewer to contemplate a jazzier age, a futuristic past. For years, preservationists fought developers who thought it necessary to demolish the city's past in order to define its future. A step toward protecting those confectionary creations was taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that...
...pirate ride, in which scurvy Hassidic blackbeards unroll replicas of the ancient scrolls in search of buried treasure. For thrills and chills, the Wailing Wall would make an amazing house of horror, complete with slide-projection wraiths and plastic mummies. And for a big finale, one could construct and demolish the city of Jericho twice daily with high pitched sound and invisible lasers...
...effort to keep the neighborhood the waythey want it, area residents formed the BankStreet Neighborhood Association last year inresponse to Harvard's proposal to build anotherdormitory at 10 Mt. Auburn St. The group managedto stall Harvard's plans to demolish a 92-year-oldhotel at the site and eventually convinced theUniversity to incorporate the turreted structureinto its overall project...
...Neighbors say that Marlene's parents, now in their 70s, dread the possible reopening of the case. They still reside in Hanford, though the house they lived in at the time of their daughter's death has long since been torn down. The memories have been harder to demolish. "The sad thing is that it keeps coming back," says Marlene's brother Walter Jr. "We have not been allowed the time to heal." And the end is still not in sight...
Yesterday, a packed crowed of 70 was on hand to watch the Crimson--playing without the services of its regular number-two player, Ingrid Boyum--demolish the Tigers...