Word: decrepit
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Traditionally held in Boston Garden, the show usually features a fight between the best boxer from South Boston and a pugilist from some other ethnic background. But this year's locale was the Boston Arena--a building so decrepit that its rats should strike for better living conditions--and the feature fight matched two black men: "Marvelous Marvin Hagler," The North American Middleweight Champion, and Guyana's Reggie Ford, the 1972 Pan-American Games champion...
Contending with a decrepit portable floor and a frigid temperature as well as the MIT basketball team, the Radcliffe basketball squad posted an easy 57-25 win over an outclassed MIT team, advancing its record...
...practically reinvented urban renewal in the early 1960s by developing a sound plan to help its decrepit downtown. Then the city's redevelopment agency, which had muscle and was willing to use it, saw that the plan was followed. By having veto power over design schemes, the agency made sure developers used major architects. As a result, planning became a Boston habit...
Renaissance Midway. With Omni's 470-room hotel, a skating rink, six movie theaters, two office buildings, worthy restaurants and elegant stores, all adjoining a sports coliseum and a convention center-Kroffts' World will go far toward revitalizing a once decrepit section Atlantans remember as Railroad Gulch. One million visitors are expected its first year...
...scatological obsessions in playwright Howard O'Brien's script are sort of dull, but the characters that lack them tend to buckle under familiar interpretations. O'Brien fills the play's most decrepit role as Old Man Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...