Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hence the morning's motley on the No. 10. The gang de-buses at 67th Street, joining park-bound streams and eddies of other brightly plumed flower children -active, retired and would-be. In the first category is Sukey Leeds, 34, who says she wasted much of the 1960s "working on the Nixon finance committee, and I never went to a demonstration in my life until the animals turned me on." By way of explanation, she points to a RESPECT THE ANIMALS DON'T EAT THEM button on her peasant blouse (coordinated skirt, 35? at a rummage sale...
More likely they are misting over with dust. It is everywhere, thick as Mayor Daley's tear gas, swirling up in gritty gusts and sticking to your body paint. Alas, one major difference between the first Central Park be-in and today's is that this time there is more grass in the air than on the ground. New York City's finances, having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, do not permit enough maintenance to keep the grass in the style to which Park Designer Frederick Law Olmsted's 19th century sheep were...
There were also a lot of bicycles in 1968, but not in the numbers and models that descend on Central Park these Sundays: flotillas of gleaming ten-speed Peugeots, Atalas, Gitanes, Raleighs and Fujis. Cut. One curious cyclist is nearly clothes-lined by a Hausman staffer to prevent his vehicle from mowing down the entire Twyla Tharp dance company as it limbers up for a Hair number. Cut. And then there are the joggers...
...bright blue Adidas. Too many telltale Perrier bottles, expensive French jeans, $30 blow-dry haircuts. And while 10,000 visitors to the Sheep Meadow this day at least try to recall a simpler age of love, peace and tolerance, hundreds of citizens who live near the park file complaints of one sort or another with the local authorities...
...Harold Schwartz, the signs left little doubt. The seven-year-old boy visiting his Huntington Park, Calif., office in 1959 had Marfan's syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that can cause heart and eye problems, affect skeletal growth and occasionally be fatal. A few months later, the boy's grandmother dropped in to inquire about his condition and revealed that her husband had died of Marfan's. The grandmother's married name was Lincoln...