Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reversals has provided some light moments for Peking Reporter Jaime FlorCruz, a Filipino who has lived in China since 1971. Take dancing: "When I arrived," he says, "social dancing was taboo. Then in 1978-79, it was pronounced 'healthy,' and I found myself waltzing with Chinese women. After that, disco became the craze, and I was often urged to demonstrate it, until last year when it was banned as 'spiritual pollution.' Now it is In again, but not all the time in all places. Rules here, it seems, are made to be changed...
...Hutton stockbroker by day, has mastered American directness and uses a different word: "Eurotrash. People say we are a little idle, a little too rich. I suppose it's true." After work or shopping, the teenage countesses and bejeaned barons gather at Club A, a jewel-box disco, to dance, gossip and compare invitations. "It's all a game to them," says a Columbia University business student, Jeffrey von der Schulenburg, 27, a German count by birth, "really just playacting, and in the end, they're Europeans again...
...newsstands, peddling flowers on city streets, even writing scholarly papers on such topics as "Coping Mechanisms of Immigrant Family Heads." They subsidize yuppie gentrification, performing the unseen, labor-intensive, minimum-wage tasks: folding the towels in the health spa, making the cold- pasta takeout salads, sewing the rhinestones on disco frocks...
...Gulf Coast and are now being rejuvenated in the waters of that miracle swimming pool where the old guys take a furtive daily dip. And lo! these senior citizens are of a sudden healthy, frisky and horny. Cancers dissolve, romance blooms anew; fox-trotting arthritics turn into disco dervishes. Wouldn't it be wonderful if decay and death were so easily washed away...
...work of Robert Longo, 32, painting resolves itself as large-scale montage, like film itself -- a chilly, imposing screen of images. Works like National Trust, 1981, fluctuate between the catastrophically private (contorted figures that might come from a disco, or might just have been felled by thrombosis or a bullet) and the blandly public (the face of a building, rendered in aluminum and fiber-glass relief). Longo's art is rooted in the mid-'70s conjunction of performance art, minimalism and video; it tries both to engage one's sense of one's body through melodramatic or newsy postures...