Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both are here to stay for awhile. As the new decade begins, the music world has split into rival camps: the "energy-makers," spearheaded by the Clash, Elvis Costello, Blondie, and even old rockers like Neil Young and the Who; and the "under-controls," which includes the whole disco scene, groups like Yes, Styx, Foreigner, and, unfortunately, this new generation of semi-new-wavers...
That charge is disingenuous. To say that the Olympic Games have nothing to do with politics is the equivalent of saying that disco dancing has nothing to do with sex. Politics has always been a glowing, insistent presence in the Games, and in some ways their reason for being. Nations continue to compete hungrily for the right to host the Games even though they know that the host always loses millions of dollars in the process. Montreal was nearly bankrupted by the $1.27 billion cost of the 1976 Olympics. The political gains-prestige, legitimacy, image-are frequently judged...
NOSTALGIA IS DANGEROUS. Perhaps disco or the decreasing number of minor league baseball players are responsible, but the collective psyche of the young generation disturbs many older concerned citizens. Gazing toward a rosy, if hazy, past, they focus on World War II, remembering fondly the unity of spirit and pride in nationhood. If only that spirit could return, if only, as President Carter instructed, we could "say something good about America." The answer, some say, is National Service, to revive our recalcitrant souls...
...surprise that Beautiful-People Photographer Francesco Scavullo celebrated his 51st birthday at Manhattan's Studio 54, the tacky ex-TV studio that has been built into the Big Apple's most celebrated disco with the help of hype-hungry celebs. But why was his party so subdued? Why did Co-Owner Steven Rubell, 36, cross his wrists as though he were wearing handcuffs? Premonition, possibly. Two days later a federal judge, considering guilty pleas from Rubell and Partner Ian Schrager to charges of failing to pay $400,000 in taxes on income skimmed from disco receipts, hit them...
Those who thought that song lyrics had reached Rock bottom can still hear the refrain of that disco hit: YMCA ... YMCA... YMCA. The Unicorn Hunters, a society of zealous word watchers based at Lake Superior State College in Michigan, offer a list of current English scourges. Among them: "ballpark figure," "pre-boarding-how can you board a plane before you board it?" and "no problem." Even insult has lost its point: "I couldn't care less" has degenerated to the meaningless "I could care less." Greetings are equally vapid: telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have...