Word: unstuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This shadow self is the city's own hypothetical disintegration, the awful promise of what will happen when the worst transpires. Civilization will come unstuck. Anarchy will break loose at last and weeds push up through the concrete, and the police will degenerate to a paramilitary tribe at war with other gangs that go howling through the wastelands like road warriors, blade runners...
...underbidder was never revealed, raising suggestions -- indignantly denied by the auctioneers -- that the price had been manipulated. The sale was financed with $27 million lent by Sotheby's: a margin-trading deal in line with the stock-exchange ethics of the Age of Milken. The deal came embarrassingly unstuck two years later when Bond, as his overgeared empire crumbled, proved unable to complete the payments...