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...movie builds from its bloody beginning, cutting between Pacino's encounters with the S-M crowd, his growing relationship with Ted ("I wish I could do something for you," Al mysteriously tells his cute, freckled neighbor) and his visits to his girlfriend (Karen Allen). The driving disco and violent gyrations of the cruising scene contrast strikingly with Allen's soft-toned flesh and delicate moaning orgasm. When Allen goes down on him, Pacino's passion rises as the throbbing Village theme invades his senses. The sequence arouses, perhaps in a trite or superficial way, a heterosexual's most basic fear...
Despite the guards, the Olympic esprit, arising from the ideal of bringing the youth of the world together, still lives in the Olympic Village. A free game room filled with the latest in pinball machines and electronic games does a brisk business. TILT is an international language. A disco with ear-numbing banks of speakers and flashing lights is in full shriek at night. In the main courtyard of the Olympic Village, the flags of the I.O.C., the Lake Placid symbol and the 37 countries represented at the Winter Games, snap in the wind against a winter sky. Below, athletes...
...both are here to stay for awhile. As the new decade begins, the music world has split into rival camps: the "energy-makers," spearheaded by the Clash, Elvis Costello, Blondie, and even old rockers like Neil Young and the Who; and the "under-controls," which includes the whole disco scene, groups like Yes, Styx, Foreigner, and, unfortunately, this new generation of semi-new-wavers...
That charge is disingenuous. To say that the Olympic Games have nothing to do with politics is the equivalent of saying that disco dancing has nothing to do with sex. Politics has always been a glowing, insistent presence in the Games, and in some ways their reason for being. Nations continue to compete hungrily for the right to host the Games even though they know that the host always loses millions of dollars in the process. Montreal was nearly bankrupted by the $1.27 billion cost of the 1976 Olympics. The political gains-prestige, legitimacy, image-are frequently judged...
NOSTALGIA IS DANGEROUS. Perhaps disco or the decreasing number of minor league baseball players are responsible, but the collective psyche of the young generation disturbs many older concerned citizens. Gazing toward a rosy, if hazy, past, they focus on World War II, remembering fondly the unity of spirit and pride in nationhood. If only that spirit could return, if only, as President Carter instructed, we could "say something good about America." The answer, some say, is National Service, to revive our recalcitrant souls...