Word: disco
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...locals and you hear the rare sound of southerners pleased with the direction in which their town is headed. One morning in March, Pasquale Salandria, taking a break from his work on a city clean-up crew, gestures toward two new seaside cafés and a disco. "Ten years ago there was almost nothing here," he says. Indeed, the town of 3,000 now seems to strike a nice balance between dynamism and coastal pleasantness, favoring local sports facilities, for instance, over outsized tourist lodgings...
McGregor's dance background was multifaceted. Growing up in the north of England, he was a fan of John Travolta films, and took classes in disco and ballroom. At 15, he shifted to contemporary dance, studying in Leeds and New York City. Tall but fast, and endowed with a bonelessly flexible physique, he was a performer you didn't forget, and when he founded Random at the age of 22, he passed on his distinctive style to his dancers...
...rocking the feathered top-hat, neon hoodie, and pacifier? “Not exactly. But these greasy club kids have shown me a side of myself that I never knew existed.” Yes, Harvard students have seen the light. And it’s a giant disco ball...
...money.W. Brian C. Polk ’09RR: What’s your role in “Fable Attraction”?BP: I play a magic mirror name Mira-Mira Ondeewall. She’s been around for a very long time, and basically she looks like a disco ball. She’s really shiny and funny and from the 70s.RR: Didn’t you write the play also?BP: Yeah, I’m the co-author. Kathleen Chen and I, we wrote the script, and then we chose a composer, and then we basically rewrote...
...wave was just one of the ways the audience tried to work off its nervous energy. They danced, they chanted. As disco music played, those seated near the curtained hallway to the back and left of the stage gasped when an elegant black hand briefly parted the curtain. An older black woman in an Obama t-shirt, bright kerchief and big glasses had a view just inside the sanctum; she hopped to her feet and waved her hands like she had just seen Elvis. The hand outside the curtain waved and pointed to her with an ironic, hep-cat flick...