Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...42ND STREET Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion Songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin...
Hear that particular, percussive sound as the curtains fall away, showing dozens of chorus dancers tapping like delirious bobbins. To generations of Broadway audiences, this single sensation is an express ticket to some giddy paradise. In that tradition, and for that audience, 42nd Street is a musical made in heaven. For theatergoers outside the tradition, skeptical of it, the show will look like a high-stepping exercise in runaway nostalgia...
...accounts for only 19 of the 3361 delegates (or 0.5 per cent) who will decide the nomination at the Democratic Convention in New York and 22 of the 1993 (1.1 per cent) Republican delegates who will gather in Detroit in July. But rational calculations of the value of the 42nd most populous state in the nation just don't cut it in New Hampshire, a nightmare Never-Never Land where winners lose and losers win, where perception is reality and reality is irrelevant...
...those words, spoken in the informal, no-nonsense style that had endeared her to her subjects throughout a 31-year reign, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands told a national television audience that she would abdicate on her 71st birthday this April 30. The occasion for the surprise announcement: the 42nd birthday last week of Crown Princess Beatrix, who will succeed her mother on the throne...