Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...
Like roller disco and hot tubs, land leasing is most popular in California, but it was hardly invented there. In 1632, King Charles I of England leased a huge tract of land on Chesapeake Bay to Lord Baltimore. The rent: two Indian arrows annually, plus one-fifth of all the gold and silver found on the property. Lord Baltimore established Maryland Colony on the land and leased out parcels to settlers. Ground rents are still a tradition in Baltimore. More than half of the 50,000 homes in Baltimore's inner city are on leased land. The contracts...
...that the vigilance of reviewers' scrutiny has made pure pop songs, like, say "Da Do Ron Ron" taboo. Groups forced into mixing internal broodings with commercial and critical success wilted, or suffered tragic deaths. American "Top 40" music has since deteriorated to formulaic, dreary soft-rock songs and mindless disco...
...ordinary feminist convention, this. The lesbians, sex kittens, Amazons and fashion models here pack the hotel; attired in leather and chains, gauze and spangles, disco Spandex and Southern belle white, they hang from the ceiling and leer out of doorways. Their cigarette smoke makes haze of the atmosphere; their singing and screaming and chanting and ranting produce an unholy, stupefying, din. They are painted like puppets; they contort and disport to uncanny visual effect...
Such is the cultural currency of Hollywood that anyone who can read his mail is called a man of letters, and the person who knows that filet de sole isn't a French disco group joins the intellectual elite. By these standards-and some higher-John Sayles is a Renaissance man. At 25, an O. Henry short-story award; at 28, a National Book Award nomination; at 29, critical praise and a measure of commercial success for Return of the Secaucus Seven, a $60,000 film he wrote, produced, directed, edited and acted in. Lately, on weekends when...