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Word: discoing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a tournament, he is abstemious. Though he sometimes drops by the establishment of international Disco Doyenne Regine on Spain's Costa del Sol, he never shakes his booties when there is a match to be played. "Sure I would like to go out, but I never really felt that bad about the things I missed. That feeling you have after you win a hard match is good enough." Mariana says he "is a pretty good dancer, but he would be real good if we could go discoing more often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Even for this peculiar presidential election, it was a week of bizarre happenings. At a $125-a-plate fund-raising dinner in San Francisco, Independent John Anderson sat stunned as sequin-clad Gary Poole led his disco dance troupe through a series of exotic routines. A male dancer hauled a woman, clad in a white jumpsuit, around the stage on a leash. After the dance was over, Anderson remarked to the 400 partygoers: "I'm guilty of a certain Midwestern naiveté. I've never seen anything quite like this before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Search of a Theme | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...occasion orchestrated by Strauss. The star of the show, callipygian Linda Bardot, clad mostly in a pearly headdress, twirls around under a filigreed umbrella, mouthing in puffick Cockney Oi'm Aownly aye Bird in aye Gilded Cayge. Between and after the twice-nightly shows, the place becomes a disco where the windows vibrate past midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: High Kicks Above the Big Apple | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

What everyone obviously hoped for was a film that would do for country-and-western music what Saturday Night Fever did for the disco craze-make a lively, gritty comment on it and earn big bucks too. Like Fever, Urban Cowboy is based on a magazine article (by Co-Scenarist Aaron Latham). The same star, John Travolta, has been recruited to play the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sunbelt Saturday Night | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...decorator-designed kitchen qualifies as a picture spread in Better Homes and Gardens, and her life seems to mirror her kitchen. When the curtain rises, Maude is meticulously folding laundry and baking chocolate chip cookies for charity. As if to modify these rituals, she breaks into a wild disco dance to the strains of Gimme Shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jest Match | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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