Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western pursuits are copied just as eagerly. Soviet youths who have come to love pizza and disco music are now smitten with skateboarding and jogging. Among the well educated in Moscow and Leningrad, Jane Fonda is a cult figure, but not for her politics. Her popularity stems from movies and, even more surprising, from bootlegged tapes of her exercise routines...
That attitude should reassure the Kremlin, for it illustrates that a Soviet youngster can be enthralled with the trappings of Western culture but still retain his deeply nurtured distrust of the U.S. Indeed, the blue jeans and the disco thump probably serve as useful vents for youthful frustrations. The greater threat facing Chernenko is not that the Soviet Union's young people are attracted to other cultures, but that the system does not provide for their multiplying needs and locks them into slots at an early age, breeding apathy and boredom. -By James Kelly...
...perilous adventure with the shorter (6 ft. 2 in.) but broader Conan, portrayed again with brutish authority by Celebrity Iron Pumper Arnold Schwarzenegger, 36. Also along for the fun and grunts in the film, now shooting in Mexico, is the Amazonian Zula, played by Model-Disco Star Grace Jones, 30. How does Wilt the Stilt feel about trading his hoop spiking for a spiked club? "I figure if I'm going to be a baddie, I better have something serious to back me up," he says. "I designed it myself. I might take it with me the next time...
...color, culture and tradition, the opening ceremonies began when 1500 athletes from 49 countries marched in a magnificent procession to pop and disco, to Beethoven, Mozart and Bach...
...overnight multimillionaires, though, revel in their new prominence. Apple Computer Co-Founder Steven Jobs, who is now worth about $185 million, has toyed with the idea of going into politics and was seen escorting Actress Diane Keaton to a Manhattan disco. When Altos Computer Systems Founder David Jackson began counting his wealth in nine figures, he turned up at the Kentucky Derby with then Governor John Y. Brown and was a guest at a San Francisco reception for Queen Elizabeth...