Mr. Masiello, who won a third four-year term in 2001, acknowledged that the city's fiscal crisis slowed the pace of condemnations and demolition his administration had maintained during his first few years in office.
In Mr. Sahmaoui's sixth-floor apartment, one of the last inhabited in a building slated for demolition, his father chopped carrots and tomatoes for the couscous he was making for dinner.
Within minutes of the demolition, his office announced the immediate construction of the 300 housing units in Beit El that his previous government had promised to make up for the eviction of another disputed project in the same settlement.
7 55 A.M. (Showtime) THE PREACHER'S WIFE (1996) Denzel Washington plays an angel who enters the lives of an urban minister (Courtney B. Vance) facing bankruptcy and the possible demolition of his church, and his neglected wife (Whitney Houston).
His closeted masochist in The Paperboy might have seemed like a cheap demolition of his constructed image were his portrait not so vivid; he again played with our expectations in Magic Mike, playing a ripped male stripper who, like Wooderson, is teetering on the edge of pathetic irrelevance.
This has led him into serious difficulties in his homeland, including a period of detention, the removal of his passport and the demolition of his Shanghai studio by the authorities.
He has braved periods of house arrest, a beating that caused a brain hemorrhage, prosecution for tax evasion, the shutting down of his popular blog, the revocation of his design firm's license, the demolition of his newly built studio in Shanghai, and around-the-clock surveillance.
His temper having cooled somewhat in the days following, Foley decided to use his daughter's old TV instead of his own, moved the site of demolition to his driveaway and used a baseball bat instead of a brick.
Szyrk, who had been alerted by the media to the threat posed to his creation, moved promptly from his SoHo studio in NYC to file for a temporary restraining order to prevent the demolition of his work.
Ai Weiwei has become China's most famous living artist not just for the internationally admired quality of his work, but for his troubles with his native country, where he has recently faced house arrest, investigation for "spreading pornography" and the demolition of his studio.
Still, Medvedev insisted that the precocious demolition of his literary career was not a P.R. stunt.
