Word: disco
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...blame the Muslim community." Michel Wieviorka, director of the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, a research lab in Paris, agrees that non-Jews suffer less dramatic but more common discrimination, encountering "overt racism as well as daily prejudice. Acts of discrimination - from being rejected entry to a disco to being passed over for a job - are so common they aren't even reported," Wieviorka says. Crimes that are reported - and draw media attention - are often on a par with some of the worst anti-Semitic attacks. Mosques as well as synagogues have repeatedly been wrecked by arson; Muslim...
...Thanks Mr. Secretary, but stick to your day job." The SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, in a headline commenting on U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's performance of the disco hit Y.M.C.A. on the closing day of last week's asean meeting in Jakarta
Diplomats at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta had front-row seats for COLIN POWELL'S rendition of the '70s disco hit YMCA. The Secretary of State honored the tradition of wrapping up Asia's largest security meeting with a night of entertainment by gyrating his hips and singing (off-key): "President Bush, he said to me: 'Colin, I need you to run the Department of State. We are between a rock and a hard place...
...first visits here, on holiday (not vacation!) were no less mythic than these imagined landscapes. I spent my time strolling around the secretive gardens of Westminster, pressing my camera against the iron of Buckingham Palace, throwing my lanky frame around an exorbitant mega-disco, spinning dumbly at the continuous vroom of oblivious Ferraris. A few years ago, staring despondently across Kensington Gardens through a late spring haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold...
Sometimes, the lessons backfire. Rehearsing for last week's disco night, Barrino was ready to perform the Emotions' Best of My Love. Vocal coach Debra Byrd, musical director Michael Orland and co-executive producer Nigel Lythgoe felt the song didn't showcase her well enough. "I'm just not sure what you'll gain from singing it," said Lythgoe. Instead, Byrd handed Barrino Holding Out for a Hero, the Bonnie Tyler anthem from Footloose. "That's the kind of song that gets you votes," said Lythgoe. It's easy to see why they felt that way: the song is dramatic...