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Word: discoing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even in this Disco Decade, it's still hard to understand how when a singer says, "It's gonna take a lot of love/To make things work out right," a critic can label the thought expressed as "insignificant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cowboy in the Sand | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...find quite intolerable. The same student who will don a tuxedo for formal dinner parties and acquiesce in the "sub-fusc" of 3-piece suit, bow-tie, white shirt and gown that Oxford students are required to wear for Finals, may be an ardent devotee of new-wave and disco music. Latin grace at formal dinner in an often centuries-old college hall will be followed by a drink in the bar with jukebox afterwards. The computerized handouts, course information and I.D. cards in many cases just do not exist--instead there may be one college secretary...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Behind the Gowns | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

Still, Bogart's is a disco with a difference. Like a growing number of bars and dance halls in Arizona and elsewhere in the Southwest, it invites the evening customers to mix their pleasure with a certain amount of pain on "boxing night." At 8:30 on any Tuesday, the M.C. at Bogart's can be found, microphone in hand, asking for help. What he needs are more volunteer boxers. "O.K., folks. We've got six fighters signed up. If you've got any friends, give them a call and get them down here." Seated just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Staged Fright -- Hallowe'en Disco -- Community Center, Prospect and Harvard Streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: Oct. 26-Nov. 1 | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

Remember "Temptation Eyes?" Well, the Grass Roots are back in town, playing Lucifer from Oct. 23 through Nov. 5. Why they're playing at a disco I'll never figure out. The last time they were heard from, disco hadn't even been invented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not the Rock Column | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

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