Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid eyes of heavyset leering businessman who offers me a smoke, a stick of gum, a wink. Too early. Perhaps I should have looked harder for a seat; this area between cars is no-man's-land, and certainly no woman's. Same hazards as walking alone down 42nd St. Mister, mister, leave me alone; today is the day of Women's Liberation. Tonight I am going to march, strike for equality. Strike for Equality. I think I should talk to this man, explain why his low-voiced suggestions are an insult, but it is too early...
Finally: Finally, I sink down on damp grass, Bryant Park. Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. Almost 8 p. m., darkening tired; people all around. More speeches, but I don't listen; will read about in tomorrow's Times. We sit in the damp, and it grows too dark to see the speakers, and with 20,000 people around me (the park's capacity) I feel very alone. What do we want? so many, men and women, have asked today. I want to be a woman, equal in the eyes of the world and free within my own head...
...would suspect the marriage rare in which both partners rise to worldwide prominence. Yet this week's cover story on Actor Elliott Gould marks the 42nd occasion that both a husband and wife, either current or ex, have appeared on the cover of TIME. Gould's estranged wife, Barbra Streisand, was featured in the April 10, 1964 issue...
...chorus line of a short-lived show called Rumple) earned him $125 a week and bursitis from hefting showgirls into the air. After Rumple crumpled, he scuffled around the periphery of Broadway, picking up a small job here and there and spending a lot of time in the 42nd Street movie houses...
...York I walked into that morning, down 42nd Street from 9th Avenue, choked me with the smell of garbage and smoke. There was dog shit, even a little horse shit, all over the sidewalk, and there were kids- at six in the morning- there were kids huddling in doorways, watching me as I passed...