Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trolley's triumph has inspired nostalgic visions. New York City is considering restoring trolley service as part of its redevelopment of 42nd Street. San Francisco is overhauling its emblematic fleet of cable cars...
Wendy Wasserstein to the rescue. On West 42nd Street, within spitting distance of Broadway, her new comedy is showing the theatrical old guard how to be young, hip and acerbic without forfeiting involvement in affairs of the heart. Isn't It Romantic examines the lives of two old college chums-Janie Blumberg (Cristine Rose) and Hattie Cornwall (Lisa Banes)-as they approach their 30s and the dangerous prospect of a life without either Mamma or mate...
...Pentagon and CIA acknowledged that a nuclear bomb had indeed been detected. But the White House, after forming a task force to cope with a public outcry, officially concluded that the Vela Satellite, after correctly identifying 41 nuclear explosions between 1969 and 1979, had made an error on its 42nd detection. British scientists reported that at the U.S. National Technical and Information Services, which records date on nuclear explosions, ordinary information for the period in question was missing...
...grinding pelvises, heavy metaphors and a climactic ascending platform, have all the pretensions of Cats or a Bob Fosse musical but with none of the spirited style; this show would never get to previews. Stallone seems not to have noticed or cared. He heads off in opposite directions-toward 42nd Street and Flashdance Avenue-and loses himself in the contradictions. With the exception of one rehearsal sequence, feverishly edited to Brother Frank Stallone's catchy Far from Over, the movie brings neither kick nor context to its song track (including five new ones by the Bee Gees). The raunchy...
...written mostly about rock music. He made the trip from Grub Street toward Easy Street by way of Hollywood: the film version of his 1976 New York magazine story about Brooklyn disco culture was a box office smash. Cohn's subsequent New York cover was "24 Hours on 42nd Street," a lurid first-person account of a day and night spent swallowing street drugs amid the sexual sleaze of Times Square...