Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beaver, the Catlips-roll out like streamers. Yet Gatsby's parties were restrained compared with, say, the $200,000 "picnic" that T.C. and Phyllis Morrow of Houston threw last December for 1,000 friends, including Farrah Fawcett and John Travolta (who did not show), which featured a "country disco band." The emphasis of such fiestas is on the collecting of people, who if they cannot be owned outright may at least be rented...
...merely dream nonsense, but the rich have to live it; and while we rarely endure the consequences of our fantasies, they do so relentlessly. Allan Carr, the co-producer of Grease, reflecting on his Malibu dream house and his Beverly Hills mansion with its cop per-walled disco chamber, exulted, "This is my fantasy . . . I'm dreaming all this." Then he added that he would kill anyone who awakened him. Who would think of doing that? Thanks to the Allan Carrs, all our harebrained desires are realized by proxy, like hiring a mercenary to fight...
...spenders is that they are wonderfully entertaining. There is nothing like them. If a conga line could be made up extending from Qin Shihuang and Elagabalus, through Hearst, the sheiks and Allan Carr, we would need no Broadway shows. It is not just their poly urethane clouds and disco chambers; it is their hilarious innocence, their religious concentration on themselves. What's more, they rarely know how entertaining they are. Nero, for example, when he entered his Golden House with its statue of him self, 120 feet high, and its private lake, observed: "At last I am beginning...
...fatalist a song, "Living Through Another Cuba" has remarkable energy: an overwrought disco tune with a message, it sounds like music to accompany St, Vitus' Dance--or the Dance of Death...
...fact three songs laid on one backround--polylyrics for plyrhythms. The continual exuberance of the polyrhythms matches the Bo Diddley beat in providing an automatic source of energy in a song, and this should encourage many groups to get funky. Could this be the trend of the eighties? Will Disco meet Rock by way of Africa...