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Arms flung wide, blowing kisses like confetti, Donna sashays around the stage in glittering costumes, exhorting the audience ("You are beautiful"), joshing the band, trading a little prefabricated bitchiness with her backup singers who undulate at sharp angles like clockwork Nefertitis when Donna wraps herself around a lyric. "I do not consider myself a disco artist," Donna insists, against all contrary evidence. "I consider myself a singer who does disco songs. What I like to do is expose my market to other parts of music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gaudy Reign of the Disco Queen | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Lois Lane, Cub Reporter Jimmy Olsen and Editor Perry White, comes close to being a mythological figure, not only in the U.S. but around the world. "You can't mess about with a myth," says Designer John Barry, who also did the sets for Star Wars and A Clockwork Orange. "Too many fans would be at your throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Here Comes Superman!!! | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

What has reduced last season's clockwork to guesswork...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Whether 2-4-4 or 4-3-3, It Still Equals Zero | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

...Clockwork...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: ...While Booters Start at MIT Today | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

...become as regular as the clockwork of Olympic swimming judges. Every four years, a collection of adolescent American girls put aside their good-luck Teddy bears, jumped into the water and swam away with a gaggle of gold medals. No sooner had 500 journalists written stories beginning "Thank heaven for little girls . . ." than the entire U.S. women's swimming team retired to study for their driver's licenses. But in short order, pools were filled with a new generation of water sprites, and America's junior high school swimming juggernaut splashed relentlessly on: five of seven gold medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Water Sprites | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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