Word: barbican
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...businessmen, clerks and stevedores still swarmed into the City and then poured out again each evening to leave a lonely nighttime population of only 5,000. Finally, the only area where London could still take profitable advantage of the Nazi demolition was 35 acres of ruins flanking Barbican Street, where Milton once lived...
...Fairbanks on the current job is 29-year-old Tony Curtis, who plays the broadsword, mans the barbican and generally acrobattles with such enthusiasm that no one should be disturbed by a few Curtis crudities. Example: when he kisses a girl-in this case Janet Leigh, who is Mrs. Curtis in private life-a great wet smack is heard all the way to the back of the theater...