Word: disco
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...evening, and ultimately the winner, is John Ocacio, a former Arthur Murray instructor and a veteran of the disco era who once appeared on American Bandstand. Tonight he's wearing combat attire and camouflage makeup for a monologue about being a 19-year-old in Viet Nam. His act consists of standing with his rifle in a bayonet-thrust position and making robot-like movements, ratchetting across the stage on the stuttered word "nuh-nuh-nuh- nineteen." On a bit about post-traumatic stress disorder the movements go haywire. He throws a grenade. He takes enemy fire...
...dirty streets around the country, is shuddering back to life, becoming a gleaming circa-1920s boulevard. Many of its handsomely scaled old masonry buildings were renovated: derelict art moderne office buildings became cool art moderne apartment buildings, and the art deco stock exchange was reborn as an art deco disco. There were more than two dozen major restorations in all -- including what had been the CRA's office building. The CRA, as it happened, had helped foster this revival. So in 1980 back came the urban-planning bureaucrats to their original building, back this time as historic preservationists, back...
...marks its owner as reigning king of the big spenders. And who might that be now? Last week it was confirmed that the new skipper is Donald Trump, 41, the Manhattan skyscraper builder and casino czar. Trump paid nearly $30 million for the liner, which contains 15 suites, a disco, pool, helipad and 296 phones...
...that its hero and his pals were regulars at Odeon and other lower- Manhattan spots that were trendy at the time. The book was witty and well paced, yet neon and clouds of expensive white powder tended to obscure the fact that the work was as slick as a disco dance floor and about as deep as a Jacuzzi bath. In short, it had everything a publicist could ask for, including the right demographics...
...matter how upscale a Manhattanite climbs, he can never escape the sight of poverty or the threat of violence. The glitterati on their way to a $1,000-a-ticket gala must tiptoe through the homeless camped outside in their cardboard condos. And at this week's chic disco -- in this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman who knows no more of haut-monde Manhattan then...