Word: disco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baby Burn." You know, not so many years ago people hearing those words would have thought of young revolutionaries in Los Angeles, Huey Newton, etc. But not now, no sir, 'cause our society (Time magazine assures us) is in much better shape, and those words are a celebration of --disco. And you can see the people who brought us "Disco Inferno" by jaunting down to Lucifer's in Kenmore Square Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Yes, The Tramps will have shows each night at 9:00 and 12:30. We are not sure where the malcontents are these days...
Tricked out once more as the amiably inept Chief Inspector Clouseau, Peter Sellers is bungling his way into Le Club Foot, a Paris disco frequented by dope dealers. Just then a blonde plunges out, struggling to escape a nasty-looking killer. She trips over Clouseau, which is lucky for him. She turns out to be Simone Le Gree, the former mistress-secretary of France's drug kingpin, who is out to get Clouseau. Since she is also out to get her boss, who has dropped her, she becomes the inspector's sexy sidekick in Revenge of the Pink...
...swinging superrich, who have always been free to flit from clime to clime. Nor are they the winging investors who see unsurpassed opportunity for profit here, or at least a safe haven for capital. They are entrepreneurs and professionals: bankers, financiers, managers, restaurateurs, moteliers and boutiquiers, disco owners, jewelers, architects, designers, publicists, models, film makers, exporter-importers and dealers in just about everything from abstract art to shopping centers...
...have a sleek insouciance that immediately sets them apart on an avenue or in a living room. Their businesses, from boutiques to watering places, are conducted with Continental cachet. While the new Americans often get together for social occasions that may include an afternoon of soccer, an evening of disco dancing or a meal at one of their favored restaurants (La Boite in Manhattan, for example, or Wong Kai in Miami or Ma Maison in Los Angeles), they tend to assimilate easily into American life. Indeed, many Europeans enjoy the openness of their new neighbors, after the clannishness that marks...
...Chicken Ranch did a brisk business until a Houston television station broadcast an "exposé" about it five years ago. That shamed the state authorities into shutting it down. Last September a shrewd lawyer moved the Chicken Ranch, virtually intact, to Dallas, where it became a sort of disco restaurant serving Spanish chicken, Mexican chicken, Swiss chicken and so on. Unfortunately for him, the Chicken Ranch's customers were not really interested in those dishes, and four months later the place closed down for good...