Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first night in New York, I couldn't sleep in the creaky beds at the YMCA, so I woke up at six in the morning. I put on my yellow shirt, sport coat and tie, and walked down 42nd Street. Times Square was the only part of New York I had heard about. My father was born in Brooklyn, near Myrtle Avenue, and from him my brother and I learned about the push carts, the subways, and the City: "As you walk up Broadway, it's Washington Square, Union Square, Herald Square, then Times Square, boys...
...they are, pending further research this summer) on an experiment he conducted last year for a class project at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Aided by another doctoral candidate, Verena Hirsch, he spent two weeks studying pedestrian phenomena on Manhattan's 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Much of the experiment involved Wolff and Mrs. Hirsch setting themselves on collision courses with other pedestrians and gauging their reactions...
...homed in on a giant arc light piercing the California night. As they arrived, the stars fussed with their see-through dresses, tie-dyes and black ties and then paraded up a red-carpeted walkway. The path did not lead, however, to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the 42nd annual Academy Award presentations. The setting instead was 9492 Rembert Lane and the occasion the "42nd Annual Mitchell Academy of Arts and Games" -actually the second annual gathering of a rump group of Hollywood headliners determined to mock the mockery of the Oscar presentations. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton was there...