The top five floors tumbled down on Oct. 30, one after another, as workers were pouring fresh concrete on part of the top floor.
It is alive with the dead, and now there is a new arrival: the fierce ghost of teenage martyr Antigone, who believes so passionately that her chosen path is the right one that she defies the law and brings tragedy tumbling down on herself and those she loves.
The wall between church and state came a-tumbling down on Sunday, as elected leaders from the five states on the Gulf of Mexico issued proclamations declaring it to be a day of prayer.
Last year an unidentified workman renovating a vineyard dorm for grape pickers in Champagne country, east of Paris, found the currency when it tumbled down on him from rough sacks.
All the years since I had met Clara suddenly came tumbling down on top of me, everything my life had been, most of it nothing to do with her.
Before that, in the first half-billion years of the solar system's history, when there were a lot more meteors flying back and forth, some 50 billion potential bacteria-carrying Martian rocks tumbled down on Earth.
Maybe it just became inevitable when heel heights became so ridiculous that the only way was down – either in terms of the heel heights themselves or for women tumbling down on the pavement as they attempt to master their 6in Charlotte Olympia heels.
A crane so tall that it scraped off the tops of the trees that line the block was brought to the scene around 11 p.m. Sgt. Tom Collins of the Police Department's Emergency Service Unit said that firefighters had to painstakingly chop the pile away slowly; otherwise, the rubble could have tumbled down on anyone trapped inside.
(I have, incidentally, happy memories of the two travellers in Irwin Allen's 60s TV show The Time Tunnel, who would travel far and wide, for instance tumbling down on to an elegant cruise-ship and rather enjoying themselves, before they notice that the lifebelts are marked – gulp! – RMS Titanic).
The rain may have tumbled down on Scotstoun on Sunday but it couldn't wash away the feeling that Scotland have at last made their presence felt on the Sevens World Series.
