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...everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco. "People think they have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise later used it in his International Dull Day proclamation last Oct. 16.) That was the kind of folderol that used to fill...
Death in Detroit. Pretty, bright-eyed Keisha Jackson, who was 13 and black, swung her roller skates and laughed with a group of friends after a lively evening at Detroit's Wheels Disco Roller Center. A 16-year-old black boy watched the group go by and squeezed the trigger of his stolen .32-cal. handgun. Keisha fell to the sidewalk, a bullet in her brain, and died a few days later. The boy has not explained to the police why he shot at the happy party...
...TIRED to Boogie," a lengthy disco scene, radiates the pathos and misfortune of academic types seeking to relieve their boredom in the foreign environment of strobe lights and glass balls. In contrast, a '50s bobby-socks mock-up allows the singers and dancers to wail over the alienation of their social life by oppressive education appeal to the audience as reminders of the elite status that three years at the Law School provide to those who choose to undergo whatever social barbarism it imposes. The show's authors depict the painstaking process of interviewing with corporate law firms, an experience...
...Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies, smelly peasants, and a trio of disco-dancing suits of armor...
...ripping through the jungle, and the "fishbones" of TV antennas poke up everywhere. In one hamlet, Gypsy and Salome explore the apparently deserted town, wondering whether to present their show, only to find the entire community sitting in churchlike attendance on a single, tiny TV screen glowing with disco action from the dance floor of "American Bandstand." Searching for towns where progress has not yet stolen their audience, they take their ramshackle operation into the interior and finally are driven to big cities buzzing with the din of portable radios and the "civilized" hustle of discos, drug deals, and leisure...