Word: disco
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...Literally everything. From disco, rock, metal, reggae, rap, blues, jazz, progressive rock, techno, progressive jazz, alternative, new age, folk and even a little bit of country and western...
...very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...
...decades inspire popular music anthologies. The makers of "Disco 70s" and "Totally 80s" have already begun work on the current decade. "Silicon 00s" will feature titles from Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, as well as Weird Al Yankovich's "It's all about the Pentiums...
...very first communications satellite so that HBO could be broadcast nationwide. "What do cable guys know about the space business?" skeptics on the board asked Levin. To them, space meant NASA: engineers with buzz cuts, white short-sleeved shirts and clip-on ties. How did this guy with the disco moustache and the Shaft-era hairdo plan on paying off a satellite? "Somewhere in the Time archives there is probably a memo from [the chairman] saying, 'Who is this guy in the double-knit suit?'" Levin recalled last week. "But I knew I would win. It was the force...
...like awkward teenagers at a disco, neither India nor America seems to have the wherewithal to get the other to touch-dance. President Clinton is set to visit India in March, but the tentative nature of this week's talks between Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and their Indian counterparts underline the fact that relations between these "natural partners" remain bedeviled by history and geopolitics...