Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seals was Harvard's second man, finishing 30th. Behind him were teammates John Quirk (33rd). Jeff Brokaw (42nd), George Barker (44th), Tom New (53rd), and Mark Counolly (61st). Harvard's performance was especially encouraging since the five behind Seals are all sophomores...
...applause that greets her every tap dance, her every entrance, even her bad lines, points toward that self-congratulation. If Ruby can still tap her way into the hearts of the fans-it should be recalled that Miss Keeler was the ingenue to whom Warner Baxter said in 42nd Street, "You're going out there a youngster, but you're coming back a star!"-then perhaps there's still reason to believe that there is life after thirty...
...Real estate broker describing New York's 42nd Street...
...cynical businessman was explaining why 42nd Street is difficult to clean up, much as it needs sanitizing. The analogy is apt for a cowpath that became one of the world's most famous streets. Forty-second was once the grandest lady of the theater. Florenz Ziegfeld produced his Follies at the New Amsterdam Theater. Gertrude Lawrence, Bea Lillie and Will Rogers were stars of the street, and at the Liberty Theater there was music by George Gershwin, danced to and sung by Fred Astaire. Now it is a center for pornography, perversion and prostitution...
...scenes advance the "ideas" of the film. Language is impeccable by that standard, Moore suggested, since sex is the idea. But what of patent offensiveness according to prevailing community standards? The judge wondered wistfully if such an innocuous film could even hope to hold its own on 42nd Street. "Judging by the current fare in New York," he observed, "this film is going to be hard-pressed to match the level of candor of its competition...