Word: wrecker
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...neighborhood where I lived as a child, where for decades orderly rows of sturdy brick homes lined each block, is now the urban equivalent of a boxer's mouth, more gaps than teeth. Some of the surviving houses look as if the wrecker's ball is the only thing that could relieve their pain. On the adjacent business streets, commercial activity is so palpably absent you'd think a neutron bomb had been detonated - except the burned-out storefronts and bricked-over windows suggest that something physically destructive happened as well. (See the most important cars of all time...
...American kids are born into a culture that loves its gambling, and the passion is only growing, as financial hardships sweeten the ever alluring prospect of a lucky break. The danger, of course, is that gambling can lead to compulsive gambling - and compulsive gambling can be a life wrecker. Now, a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine suggests that it may be possible to spot the people most at risk when they're as young as 5 years old. (Read about the significance of peer influence on children...
With a thud heard round the movie world, Michael Cimino went straight from Oscar winner (The Deer Hunter) to studio wrecker (Heaven's Gate). Neither honor was deserved. Indeed, Heaven's Gate was the better film, with a certain suicidal grandeur about it, like a herd of buffalo stampeding toward a firing squad. United Artists took a $44 million bath on the film and within a year was absorbed by rival MGM. Now, in a delicious triple irony, Final Cut, a UA executive's memoir of the debacle, wins raves; Ted Turner agrees to buy MGM/UA; and the studio releases...
Police found Brina 12 minutes after the crash when a wrecker pulled the car out of the river...
...goat." Bill Clinton, are you listening? The media and public opinion can turn on a dime - or, in Clinton's case, on Denise Rich's dime. For the longest time, Tom Cruise was the movie star as mensch - soon, he will be seen as a self-absorbed home-wrecker. Tom, the way up and the way down are the same. And when you're falling, it's Mission Impossible to right yourself...