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Word: 125th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ghosts were as finger-snapping fun ny as Saundra McClain (Christmas Present), being haunted would be more a dream than a nightmare. Yet the highest praise of all has to go to Robin Wagner, whose sets, as clever and as intricate as Chinese boxes, encompass half of 125th Street. Wagner was the unseen star of such mediocre musicals as Ballroom and On the Twentieth Century, and he gives special luster to this Christmas card from Harlem. - Gerald Clarke

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Comic Scrooge, Demonic Shlemiel | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Cutting across 125th Street for the de rigueur sight of Harlem, the elderly, enthusiastic bus guide warns them mysteriously not to take pictures from the window. "Is Harlem better or worse than you expected?" he asks. "Better!" Later the visitors disperse to collect impressions of Manhattan on their own. Marc Horber, a kitchenware manufacturers' representative from Nancy, and his son Eric, 17, walk through Chinatown and Little Italy. Father finds the city "a grand has-been," but to his son, "It is very different from France, everyone living in his own territory, very dirty, but full of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Thumbs Up for the U.S.A. | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson's next best results came from Ed Sheehan, who finished 124th in a solid 31:48.4. John Murphy literally followed right in Sheehan's tracks, coming home in 31:48.5 to take the 125th position...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Herd Concludes Very Successful Season By Taking 28th Spot at NCAA Championship | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls for the performances, including fully staged productions of all nine Janáček operas. Workmen bawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Bayreuth at Brno | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...park looked like Madison Ave. instead of 125th St. for a change, probably because the 125th St. crowd was still at the all-night free-shopping party going on up in Harlem...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Trash | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

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