Word: wrecker
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...contact. Richardson's stock character, the failed dreamer, prefers to stay pick led in his past: his arm now is to "drink with dignity." This monument to frozen illusions suddenly shatters in not one, but two thudding, alcoholic stage falls. His identity crumbles like a building under the wrecker's headache ball...
...majestic railroad stations, many designed by the finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout the U.S. have become thriving restaurants, saved from the wrecker's ball by the diner's thrall. If few of them are likely to match Maxim's in cuisine, they are for the most part good, solid, pleasant places...
...York Tribune, filled a ten-inch-square brass box with quaint mementos of her era and saw the box sealed within the cornerstone of the Tribune's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan. When that building was demolished in 1968, the time capsule was found and kept by the wrecker until late last year, when he brought it to a dealer to sell. The solid brass exterior had worn extremely well over a full century. Inside, its contents were a modest guide to some aspects of a vanished era: a department of public works report on the city sewer...
...other personnel in a corporate office. Across the bay, in East Oakland, two other Jesuits are immersed in work among the city's many minorities: the old, the poor, the black, the brown. They may be out on the streets by 7 a.m., checking to see that a wrecker has shown up to knock down an unsafe building, or be battling until 3 in the morning at a neighborhood meeting...
...with an even more dubious one. Nixon was trying to build "a palace for the privileged few," said McGovern. Rather than tear anything down, the Democrats want to "restore that temple to the ancient truths." They both sounded like a couple of metaphysical contractors. High time to take the wrecker's ball to that sort of thing...