Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bought a Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole classic Nature Boy to the disco-danceable Valdez in the Country...
...stumble into banality, which arises out of the repetition of the theme of "paradise lost." While Nicks should be lauded for her imagistic lyrics, Fleetwood Mac's strength does not lie in its verse. Rather, the band's perfect timing and harmony establishes its professionalism. Luckily, only McVie's disco "You Make Loving Fun" curtseys to commercialism...
...contrast, artists like Ben evoke the colors and textures of the bird-of-paradise and dragonflies on Tropical's jacket--with a tremendous beat beside which disco and Motown sound pale. The rhythms have generally been slowed down until they sound like reggae, for the benefit of those unaccustomed to the frenetic pace of, say, the extemporaneous music that blossoms at every Rio street corner come Carnival time...
...served up large portions of roast beef at a sumptuous banquet. Sunday night parties celebrated the tourney's end. The Harvard women took over Pagano's, a Philadelphia Italian restaurant featuring lotsa pasta. They cornered Pagano's bar and danced tirelessly to a band blasting the best of the disco sounds. Diving coach John Walker invented a new dance called "the basketball," and the band dedicated Rolls Royce's "Car Wash" to the Harvard women, presumably with some reason behind the selection...
...Hero. Typical of the designers whom the guild likes to discover and promote is Georgia Michaud, 27. Michaud's designs, many using hand-dyed hospital gauze, are simple and versatile: for example, a pimento handkerchief-style dress that can go to the beach in the morning and the disco at night. Linda Somers, 33, works in chamois and deerskin. Her clothes are expensive: her black deerskin tiered skirt costs $230, her chamois bathing suit $50 and chamois beach cover...