And then all the Knicks' hard work crumbled like a sand castle.
Now the founder and chief executive of American Apparel sees both his life and his work crumbling around him in the form of a devastating sexual harassment suit by a former employee.
The American philosophy of individual initiative and hard work crumbles in sports arenas, where African-Americans dominate as players yet meet stiff resistance translating good statistics into a vertical presence throughout the sports industry.
However, after an entire year's worth of work crumbled in a matter of hours, I opened my eyes and saw through the startup illusion.
Many royal castles were receiving insufficient investment to allow them to be maintained – roofs leaked, stone work crumbled, lead or wood was stolen.
Seeing nearly a year of work crumbling, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed Tuesday to replace the bank fee and pay for the bill with $11 billion that would be freed by ending the government's authority to use the $700 billion bank bailout fund.
I watched him as he worked, crumbling the weed like a master chef condemned to a single ingredient.
Robinson, at large among the relics of military-industrial technology, eventually settles on a disused cement works, crumbling into romantic ruin, as the potential site of a new utopian community.
Or seeing a building you pass on your way to work suddenly crumble to pieces - only to be rebuilt seconds later?
All that hard work just crumbles".
