Word: disco
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...appearance--but the unmarried Battle unwinds at her country house in Quogue, in Long Island's chic Hamptons. In the shower her taste runs more to What's Love Got to Do with It? than to Mozart, and occasionally she will dance the night away at a disco, although the next day she will regret having subjected her voice to the noise and smoke...
...effort was jinxed at the outset because of her choice of Narada Michael Walden as producer. Walden (who worked with Jeff Beck and helped turn the legendary ax man on to the panacea of disco) here has so little faith in Franklin's raw talents that he keeps drowning her vocals in a sea of special effects. The tracks on Who's Zoomin' skitter back and forth between different styles, from pop to soulful sassiness to coolly hip. The emphasis is always on Walden's pyrotechnical studio tricks...
...reversals has provided some light moments for Peking Reporter Jaime FlorCruz, a Filipino who has lived in China since 1971. Take dancing: "When I arrived," he says, "social dancing was taboo. Then in 1978-79, it was pronounced 'healthy,' and I found myself waltzing with Chinese women. After that, disco became the craze, and I was often urged to demonstrate it, until last year when it was banned as 'spiritual pollution.' Now it is In again, but not all the time in all places. Rules here, it seems, are made to be changed...
...Hutton stockbroker by day, has mastered American directness and uses a different word: "Eurotrash. People say we are a little idle, a little too rich. I suppose it's true." After work or shopping, the teenage countesses and bejeaned barons gather at Club A, a jewel-box disco, to dance, gossip and compare invitations. "It's all a game to them," says a Columbia University business student, Jeffrey von der Schulenburg, 27, a German count by birth, "really just playacting, and in the end, they're Europeans again...
...newsstands, peddling flowers on city streets, even writing scholarly papers on such topics as "Coping Mechanisms of Immigrant Family Heads." They subsidize yuppie gentrification, performing the unseen, labor-intensive, minimum-wage tasks: folding the towels in the health spa, making the cold- pasta takeout salads, sewing the rhinestones on disco frocks...