Word: tumbledown
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...American lexicon of the 1960s and '70s, those words were synonyms for the enemy. In the paddy fields of Indochina, in jungles and deserts and tumbledown villages elsewhere around the world, leftist insurgencies seemed to be the cutting edge of Soviet expansionism, a principal cause of American retreat and defeat...
...themselves confronted by roughly 3,000 protesters, some of them lifting their arms in a black-power salute and chanting "Amandhla!" ("Power!"). The slum dwellers hurled stones at passing vehicles; the authorities opened fire with rubber bullets and bird shot. For hours, police chased rioters through a labyrinth of tumbledown shacks. By the time the battle had subsided the following day, 28 police vehicles had been damaged and 26 policemen injured on the one side; 18 were dead and 250 wounded on the other...
...York, to the tidy, stultifying suburban home of Aunt Mona, the late husband's sister. Stunned by her losses and longing for the old days "before everybody started dying," Justin mopes and takes solitary bike rides through this alien Yankee territory. On one such foray, she discovers a tumbledown hut by the side of a pond and decides to investigate. When she sees a woman inside, lying on a blanket and reading a book, Justin screams...
...been introduced to almost all the other perils a youngster must cope with these days: drugs, crime, sex, class distinctions, absent parents. The last of these is not the least of these. Tex and his sober, conventionally ambitious brother Mason are pretty much on their own in their tumbledown ranch house. Their mother is dead and their father is a rodeo performer who often forgets to send money home to the boys. In teen-age fantasies, the kind of autonomy they enjoy is widely held to be ideal, and it may be that the largest purpose of the movie, faithfully...
...Kans.; not yet 30, he seems to have enraged everyone he has ever met. His ex-wife's prominent Boston lawyer father pays Aldrich $500 a month alimony to keep his distance-on a 500-acre retreat in Vermont. There, someone systematically blows up and burns down the "tumbledown Disney land" of a condominium that the remittance man has cynically thrown together on the site. An acquaintance Aldrich meets at a bar speaks for thousands when he complains, "You have lied, I think, at least once to everyone in New England...