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...19th century character of the square. "She said this is 'a last-ditch effort.' A lot of other people have taken credit for Lafayette Square, but she was the true savior." After leaving the White House, she would help save New York City's Grand Central Terminal from the wrecker's ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacqueline Onassis: A Profile in Courage | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...games. Earlier, in an unlikely twist of fate, Fraiberg faced and eliminated Eynon in the second round. Doyle said it was surprising and somewhat disappointing that the Crimson teammates had to meet so early in the tournament. Desai, the final Harvard competitor in the tourney, also lost to Crimson-wrecker Holleran, 3-0. As the men and women's teams approach critical matches against Yale and the national championships within the next two weeks, the individual tourney served as a successful tune-up for more important things to come...

Author: By Ahmad Atwan, | Title: Squash Fares Well At USSRA Tourney | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...world where women figure less as friends and colleagues than as dangerous, Donna & Rice-like characters, capable of decimating a man's career. In the locker rooms of the U.S. Senate, it's the male who is likely to be seen as a "victim" and the female as a wrecker from hell or the enemy party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women Would Have Known | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

HARDWARE. A junk sculpture turns into a ravening home wrecker in this spiky Brit sci-fi parable. First-time filmmaker Richard Stanley has an eye for the macabre and a mind full of undigested ideas. Oh, well, next time . . . This time he has made an arresting exercise in horror on the cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...washes, neon signs and other exuberant examples of the postwar building boom are being touted for preservation. Some have already been set aside as, yes, historic landmarks, touching off a debate among the experts over what is worth saving and what deserves only to be targeted for the wrecker's ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 24 DECEMBER 11, 1989 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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