Word: disco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played disco music over his loudspeaker and danced to it, whirling about to the beat...
...most of all, Bob Dylan used to write powerful lyrics, that survive the disco generation and escape parody, (though sometimes just barely). But while Dylan's new album contains some very inspired music, even his most fundamentalist listeners are going to have a hard time with these words...
...three weeks, the FBI has been investigating allegations that White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan snorted cocaine at New York City's Studio 54 in 1978. The charges were made by Disco Owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who are under indictment for income tax evasion. Last week one of their associates sent investigators off in a new direction, across the country to California. This time the allegation is that Jordan attended two parties in Beverly Hills in October 1977 at which cocaine was used...
...thought we had given so-called 'punk rock' a bad enough name--what with the chains, the leather and Sid Vicious' 'suicide'--but then the critics turned around and called it 'new wave.' We thought disco would bring home the bacon, but what has John Travolta done for us lately? We thought the days of the early 1970s would go on forever, the time when we could deal with a few big names like Elton John, Wings, Lead Dirigible, whoever. But we didn't have it wired...
...consumers would be watching. Explains Nakash: "Psychologically it looked like there was a big company behind Jordache. The strategy worked. I started getting calls from buyers." Now Jordache is shipping about 200,000 pairs of jeans a month, or $3.5 million worth at wholesale. Aimed primarily at the disco set, Jordache jeans are selling in 3,000 stores in many parts of the country. Like the stallion, Jordache is running away with business...