Search Details

Word: discoing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Unfortunately, sheer visual zip is not enough to carry the film; it drags from one scuffle to the next. Deborah Van Valkenburgh, as the love interest of the Warriors' War Chief (Michael Beck), provides a few libidinous moments; a lesbian disco dance scene has its peculiar charms. But The Warriors is not lively enough to be cheap fun or thoughtful enough to be serious. Walter Hill, the talented director of Hard Times, the 1975 boxing movie, badly needs a direction to his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead End | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...drag. It's the thing that everyone waits for, and like the Orange Bowl halftime show, it gets more outrageous every year. "Immoral Code" starts out as harem burlesque, eases into "shake your baubels" Mediterranean disco, and before the night is over, we get the mombo, conga, meringue, and of course, the remedial can-can. The transitions are fast, a credit to the show's skilled choreography, and the dancers are fully aware that they are playing drag, not house...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...experimental": "Theme," "Fodderstomf," and "Religion I and II." "Theme" grates along for over nine minutes, with Lydon repeatedly wailing in a disembodied voice "I wish I could die" over a ponderous bass line. At the coda, Lydon intones "terminal boredom," an apparent gloss to the song. "Fodderstomf" features a disco bass line and the refrain "We only wanted to be loved" chanted in a sort of Monty Python falsetto. In the background we hear Lydon variously maundering belching, and playing with a fire extinguisher, for almost eight minutes. One manifest fault of these tracks is their impossible length; tracks...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Rotten Image | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...parents starved her to death to exorcise the devil, moves as forcefully as some of the lesser Bollocks numbers. "Lowlife," a slam at former manager MacLaren, and "Attack," another standard rocker, are at least not bad. And "Public Image," which Simon Frith of Melody Maker called "the best non-disco 45 of the year," might be just that, although there's always the Stones' "Shattered...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Rotten Image | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

Winthrop warned the assembly that if it becomes a formally-recognized Harvard organization it will have to abide by University rules. "If we had been a recognized organization, the Boston-Boston disco party would have been a lot more difficult to give," Winthrop added...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Assembly Votes to Seek Recognition From Faculty | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next