Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow sounds like a candidate for the geriatric ward, but it's only Pancho Gonzalez describing how it feels to be 41 and starting his 22nd year of professional tennis. It hurts, obviously. Yet there are compensations. Big compensations. In the opening match of the 1970 season at Madison Square Garden, Gonzalez took on Australia's Rod Laver, 31, the top-ranked pro on the tour for the past four years. The old outpatient not only survived; he outlasted Laver through five grueling sets and walked off with the $10,000 winner-take-all prize money. A week...
...Saturday night I'd given up. Wherever I called, performances were sold out and scalper's rates left my date and me with enough for a preztel but not for subway tokens back to NYU. The Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein was packed, the Knicks were in town and Madison Square Garden didn't answer. Theolonius Monk was weathering something in Canada. I'd had too many jackhammers that day for the Fillmore East to beckon, and even the movies-well, Zabriskie Point wouldn't open until Monday...
...FIELD Madison...
...terms of vouge, yes. You always latch onto the word that is most dramatic, since Madison Avenue has trained us for that, in order to make an image sear the brain. To some degree, "black" has done that. Unfortunately, I think that white society has taken the use of the word "black" so literally that hundreds of actors who, like me, don't happen to be darkcomplexioned, and who in a T.V. commercial or on a stage, don't necessarily read "black," because there's nothing "racial" or "Negroid" (and I mean those words in the derogatory sense...
...company will show an estimated $30 million in consolidated profit for the year, largely from its rich real estate operations; earnings will be down from $90 million in 1968. The Penn Central's $6.5 billion assets include four Manhattan hotels and a 24% interest in Madison Square Garden, real estate in Florida, Texas, California and Georgia, and a 7,600-mile oil pipeline system. Such holdings make many angry travelers skeptical about Saunders' protestation of poverty. Many are convinced that this winter's scandalous service is a deliberate attempt to drive them away and have the Government...