Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last, a post-control-freak third way seems within reach in New York City. Suddenly, even a skeptic can imagine that 42nd Street stretching west from Times Square -- America's most famous city block, glamorous turned squalid and now comatose -- might really be on the verge of revivification. Of course, there have been grand plans before: in 1954 LIFE magazine said a new antisleaze law meant that "42nd Street will probably never again" be as tawdry as it was then (which was considerably less tawdry than it became...
Essentially, if it's pop -- Sir Mix-a-Lot videos, cookie-dough Haagen-Dazs, Harvey Wallbangers, Beauty and the Beast trinkets, tickets to a Madame Tussaud's waxworks -- and doesn't involve pornography, switchblades or free- base pipes, the powers that be want it on the new 42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps...
...electoral college landslide, Bill Clinton defeated George Bush and Ross Perot yesterday to become the 42nd president of the United States...
Bill Clinton said the election was about change. George Bush said it was about trust. Ross Perot said it was about the economy. In the end, all three were right, and the American people made Clinton the 42nd President of the United States...
...settle in the Land of Israel, build a couple of temples and are expelled from Israel after the Romans sack the second one in 70 A.D. Nearly 2000 years later, Zionists return to the Land and begin building houses in the West Bank, which really pisses off George Bush, 42nd president of the United States...