Word: disco
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...drank some more vodka and the feeling passed. I wandered to the disco tent where I recall dancing to something called "I Wanna be Bill Cosby." Then I dragged myself back to the Science Center, where there was huge line of of men and women waiting to go to the men's room...
...Gold- plated lavatory fixtures. A kitchen on every floor. Three pianos and a harpsichord. Eighteen lace-covered pillows on the First Lady's richly canopied bed. Heroic ten-foot paintings of Marcos as a medal-bedecked leader and Imelda as a latter-day saint. A strobe-lighted and mirrored disco, outfitted with cushions bearing the mottoes of the Marcos millions. Example: "To be rich is no longer a sin, it's a miracle...
...house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere...
...case of the bombing of the disco in Berlin, the counter-evidence is particularly strong: e.g. the unlikelihood of Qaddafi ordering a terrorist act against a nightclub frequented by Muslims and black U.S. GIs, Libya's explicit denial of compliance in the action and condemnation of it, and the fact that a German neo-Nazi organization claimed responsibility shortly afterwards...
...foreign transformation of American pop can be a small anthropological revelation. In New Delhi, the imitation McDonald's sell muttonburgers, while at Free Time, a Paris chain, the big beef pattie comes on baguette-shaped buns -- le longburger. A 15-year-old Indian schoolgirl had a hit record called Disco Diwane (Disco Junkies). One time, an adaptation of American pop returned to the U.S. and popped over the top: among the Beatles' raw material was the music of the Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, but the band's worldwide influence was greater than any of their antecedents. Today...