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...usual blend of acerbic wit and creatively outrageous expropriations of popular songs. Songs like "Stand By Your Klan" and "If I Weren't a Rich Man" (with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
...Cold War, Baby Boomers, the Sixties, Disco, the Reagan Years, Desert Storm. A book each month. You don't have to pay until 1999. If you order now, you get special edition of the Al Franken Decade...
While it's no funket-out, too-cool downtown disco, the M.I.T. square dance club, Tech Squares, really is a lot of fun--as almost any dancer will tell...
...beat. Back to the eighties with a vengeance. Throw in a touch of disco, and there's a perfect mix. It funks, it pulsates, it sexes, if "you know what I mean...
Readings have caught on with a young and racially diverse set that sees poetry clubs as an attractive way to meet people now that the disco scene is passe. "Before, the scene was centered around doing coke or pot in your house with your friends or going out to a bar and drinking," says Lycia Naff, a Los Angeles actress. "All those same people are now in the coffeehouses." Poetry gatherings are also a relatively cheap night out. Says Loyola University student Anne Grason, at the Green Mill: "Where else can you have this much...