Word: scruffier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to imagine that subways in New York City could be more congested, streets any bumpier, parks any scruffier, muggers in greater abundance, ambulances slower to respond or courts and prisons in more disarray. But all that and considerably more is likely to happen as New York comes to terms with its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. After decades of living beyond its means, of spending as if there were no tomorrow, the city has accomplished what no one really thought possible: it has all but gone broke...
...bounding over battlements, leaping from one mast of a frigate to another. That movie seemed molded, in part, around his early training as an acrobat, to which he added his own vaunting energy. Lancaster's ebullient stunts, their seeming spontaneity and gleeful effortlessness, made him seem like a scruffier, scrappier Douglas Fairbanks...