Word: disco
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...boast a more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires...
...Committee report stated that motorists, a bowling alley, a disco, nearby athletic field, and residential neighborhoods all he within that radius...
...advised not to act too effervescent, she attempts to rein herself in. When a band in Cleveland struck up New York, New York, Ferraro began swaying, but abruptly stopped. "I just love to dance," she half-apologized. For Mondale's introduction the combo played a catchy disco tune, but he did not even twitch. Yet Mondale seems invigorated by Ferraro; he speaks more forcefully and smiles more readily when she is around...
...village landscape is not harmed by giant balloon-like umbilical cords streaming in the treetops and kept buoyant by ulterior fans. They are fascinating. The dormitories and other buildings given over to a "main street" of shops, a moviehouse, a beauty parlor and a disco have been redone in a profusion of violet squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park...
...tries to pick up in a bar. Ernest Stickley Jr. is a dour Oklahoma hick who, in Swag (1976), conducts a doomed 100-day armed-robbery career. Resurfacing in Stick, seven years and a prison stretch later, he has scarcely improved; he worships Actor Warren Oates and thinks disco is dynamite. But, like all of Leonard's main men, deep down he is as incorrodable as a zinc bar and as heady as the stuff...