Word: disco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the album's freshest song, "Crackpot History and the Right to Live," gets its energy from the combination of two old approaches: Aggressive, shouting disco and a psychedelic, stretched-out chorus that doesn't make sense...
...dancers, however, are getting restless. We are still marathon innocents, and are actually anxious to end the speeches and start the music. And at last, once children from Jefferson Park have performed a choreographed dance to the theme from Fame, the disco bacchanalia begins...
NORTHERN IRELAND Without Mercy Death at a disco...
...Razzmatazz disco in the small village of Ballykelly was no classy night spot. For about $2.50 a head, it offered British soldiers a rare chance to get together with local girls and escape the tense conditions of Northern Ireland. Gathering each week for dancing, the beer-drinking customers of the disco's Droppin Well bar and the gyrating couples on the dance floor took little account of the dangers of Ulster terrorism. Last week they paid the price. A small bomb, possibly smuggled into the disco in a handbag, exploded, collapsing the heavy concrete-slab roof on 150 revelers...
...bombing further increased British opposition to the planned visit to London this week by members of the Sinn Fein, Ireland's openly pro-I.R.A. political party, for talks on the future of Ulster. After the disco deaths, Thatcher denounced the visit and urged that it be canceled. But Ken Livingstone, the leftist leader of the Greater London Council (the local government of the capital) and would-be host of the Sinn Feiners, refused to withdraw his invitation. Home Secretary William Whitelaw finally banned the visit outright at the request of police, even though some security experts feared that...