Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weep. "The apples, the peaches, the strawberries are all so good here, and cheap! The first time my wife and I went to the market together," he says, "we spent $20 just on fruits and vegetables." One of his small dreams: "I'd like to go to an American disco some day and dance...
Speaking before an enthusiastic Class Day audience, Doonesbury cartoon creator Garry Trudeau yesterday called members of the Class of 1983 part of the "disco preppy generation...
Cohn, a British emigre, has written mostly about rock music. He made the trip from Grub Street toward Easy Street by way of Hollywood: the film version of his 1976 New York magazine story about Brooklyn disco culture was a box office smash. Cohn's subsequent New York cover was "24 Hours on 42nd Street," a lurid first-person account of a day and night spent swallowing street drugs amid the sexual sleaze of Times Square...
...record industry has gone from boom to blah. In 1978, estimated retail sales reached $4.13 billion with hit albums like Grease leading the way. Then the tune changed. Rising prices, fewer hits, disco, limited radio-station play, home taping, competition from video games-all were blamed for driving down music sales. Last year, sales totaled $3.59 billion, a four-year decline...
...audience claps itself into a frenzy as Sergeant Sacrifice, played by Dean Gregory, comes to life, an American commando rigged up in military gear and black spandex pants. He struts and dances to the insistent thump of the disco hit "It's Raining Men" and strips down to a lame jockstrap Buttocks shaking, hips gyrating, Sergeant Sacrifice thrusts his pelvis into people's faces, makes women in the audience kiss him. Gay or straight, the audience seems enraptured by this naked maniac. He is generic sexual energy, writhing through the theater. The theatrical connection is made as never before...