Word: disco
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...would think that most seniors would prefer to forget "YMCA," not just because it epitomizes the worst musical excesses of the disco era, but also because it evokes memories of roller rinks where we, as prepubescent skaters trying to form the letter C in "YMCA," would invariably lose our balance and careen into each other or the wall...
...fact, it's hard to understand why people are nostalgic for the late 1970s at all. I can't imagine that anyone truly misses disco, leisure suits, white polyester, pop rocks, Shaun Cassidy, mood rings, John Travolta, sideburns, Billy beer, pet rocks, Jim Jones, Starsky and Hutch, macrame, fern bars, Leif Garrett, Dynamite magazine, Craig Morton, Carter Country, Orca the Killer Whale, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Debby Boone, Pong, the Captain and Tennille, gas lines, or the movie Ice Castles and its execrable theme song...
...postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts; the movie is a hi-cal Pop-Tart to go. At the Deca Dance disco, a teenybopper flashes past wearing earrings cut from American Express cards. "They're my dad's," she confides in a gag that doesn't waste a millisecond of screen time...
...tired of the Waterloo (you won't), you can always hit The Palace in downtown Nassau. This club is a typical New York-style disco, including--yes, you guessed it--a hydraulical dance floor with flashing lights, which moves up and down, and looks like a spaceship...
Hair alone, on Broadway and through its many "tribes," or traveling companies, launched an army of performers who went on to mold the culture of the past two decades. Among them: the proto-punker Meat Loaf, Donna Summer, the Disco Queen of the late '70s, and Diane Keaton, who neatly embodied the postrevolutionary woman in Annie Hall. All ancestries link...