Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made many fortunes by dealing in gilt and anxiety. Clients crowd his Hong Kong branch offices to buy newly minted "Deak Dollars," small gold coins that command premium prices because they are stamped with Deak's aquiline features. Other customers stand in line at his 42nd Street outlet in Manhattan to buy gold coins and Swiss franc traveler's checks, which they stash away as investments. At this rate, Nick Deak will be giving Karl Maiden some competition. Still other investors-widows, orphans and the simply frightened-seek Deak for investment advice or put their money into gold...
...strike 33 years earlier. No matter. Soupy Sales and Eartha Kitt read Doonesbury and other comic strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group of picketers...
...social optimism from a man of Steinberg's background, and one does not get it. The U.S. that rises from some of his drawings in the 1970s is an edgy, nasty place, a theater of disaster populated by grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN...
...streets are also numbered, even streets running east and odd streets running west. A few streets, like 42nd, run both ways. When you get into the real downtown area, around Greenwich Village, the streets are named and make no particular sense. Central Park sits right in the middle of this large grid, and that means that a whole lot of streets north of 57th just end at the Park. In short, you're bound to get lost driving or walking, so take a cab. It's one of the most adventurous things you can do in New York...
...column which Hamill bangs out for the New York Daily News three times a week more often than not shows the limits of fast writing. He usually enters the 42nd Street newsroom around noon, fatigued after several hours spent on street corners interviewing people and pressured by the four p.m. deadline. His writing is a kind of hit or miss occupation. He doesn't have the time to make each word mean something. Regardless of the complex emotional feelings he has towards his subject for the day, the copy often rolls off the presses sounding trite and over-simplified...