Word: firetrap
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...Hemingway, I do Turgenev. I do Nabokov, he counters with John Reed." Elsewhere, Bech vainly attempts to charm Yevtushenko by describing his own position in America not as a literary lion but as a "graying, furtively stylish rat indifferently permitted to gnaw and roam behind the wainscoting of a firetrap about to be demolished anyway...
...landlord who will not repair a firetrap is worse than a campus demonstrator...
...final act at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House resounded to an anvil chorus performed by wreckers and an anguished lamento from civic-minded spear carriers who had campaigned to save the old firetrap as a city landmark. But the house, which for 83 seasons had provided an echo chamber for virtually all the world's great voices, was sort of a wreck already, with no rehearsal space, some acoustical dead spots, a dusty stage that choked the singers, and a dingy exterior. Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home...
...Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. Understandably, the parents were loath to go to court against their own hierarchy. But in 1959, on behalf of five injured children, Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed a $1,750,000 damage suit charging that the archdiocese let the school become "a dangerous firetrap." After that, more and more plaintiffs upped the ante...
...Village coffee-and-show house known as The Premise, the movie tells of young Jack Armstrong (Tom Aldredge) who arrives in An Unidentified City-the one substantial clue to its whereabouts is a Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries to open a coffeehouse. He finds a promising firetrap on Bleecker Street, signs a lease that looks like a Dead Sea Scroll, and begins to clear out the debris, among which he uncovers Citizen Kane's sled, in scribed "Rosebud...