Word: disco
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...shape of the people. In Peking, women sometimes pay plastic surgeons $20 (half a month's wage for the average urban worker) to have their eyes enlarged, their eyelids folded or their noses straightened. Men think nothing of putting down $5 for a permanent wave. Others spend $5 for disco-coordinated aerobics classes with Oriental Jane Fondas like former Star Gymnast Qi Yufang...
...actively engage their semiotic interest. They wrote up a script which included several different symbolic choices as part of what was essentially a video game except that the viewer would make choices between turning down a street to follow a flying dollar bill or stopping into an exciting-looking disco where love seems to await...
...colors and strength. The piece itself moved between the star (Gary DeLoatch) and his woman (Neisha Folkes), his percents, those close to him and those at a distance. The set was a fiery red turbulent scene with all the dancers costumed in amazing clothing reminiscent of the twenties, the disco eighties and the jazz days...
Jackson may have sold millions of Thriller records to a willing and undemanding public, but the truth is that the only good song on the record is Billie Jean. The rest of the music is standard disco hyped by electronic gimmickry. For true musical innovation and inspiration, I will take the Beatles or David Bowie over Jackson...
...obituary. But last week found Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos back on center stage, resourceful and resilient as ever. After striding vigorously up to a podium in Manila, he led 50,000 cheering supporters in his official party song ("Under the new society/ Everybody is equal"). Then, once the throbbing disco beat had subsided and the fireworks had faded into the night, the President, 66, made use of all his well-practiced political stratagems, now eloquently rehearsing the triumphs of his 18-year reign, now spiritedly reviling every member of his opposition...