Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holidays, Broadway has a festive new ornament, an all-black musical version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is a Harlem slumlord with a goatee and an Afro, Marley's ghost marches through eternity in sneakers, and the three Christmas ghosts are high-stepping disco dancers. Even Dickens' capacious imagination could probably not have envisioned such sequins and flash. Taken on its own good-natured terms, however, Comin' Uptown is a high-gloss package that should bright en everybody's holiday...
...depicted as a publicity hound consumed by his ambition to become Secretary of State-and more. "He likes to talk of himself as a sex symbol, to speak of the 'aphrodisiac of power,' " Quinn wrote. In one vignette, Brzezinski is described as boogeying lustily at a Washington disco, looking faintly ridiculous and "flirting with 16-year-olds." Quinn elsewhere describes him as a man "constantly torn between the thrill of making headlines and the risk of making a fool of himself...
...York the people stare back at you. Two police cars grumble, drowning out the Salvation Army bells that ring across town and sit waiting, grazing on the sidewalk, spinning their disco lights. Their red lights reflect from the lenses of a lawyer's glasses as he walks from his car toward the block where the limousines are parked. The rumble of the police cars echoes off the brick of a church. The lawyer glances left and crosses against the Don't Walk sign at 11th Avenue. Several blocks later he edges toward the curb when a girl's face whispers...
...safe, and plenty of drawers for her status jeans (which come with this warning: "for tight-fitting fashions, especially pants, ask an adult for some baby powder and rub it on doll's legs before slipping on clothes.") There are even hangers for superstar Barbie's feather boa and disco dresses...
...where fantasy has been exhausted, there is still real life to some toys and games. Popular music, for instance. There is the Bee Gees rhythm machine, not an instrument really, but instead a true rhythm machine. There are three rhythms a child can select.--latin, pop and disco. Perhaps it is appropriate that the Bee Gees have lent their names to this product...