Word: discoing
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...create the French colossus. She has sought to create a positive image for the firm, and for nuclear energy in general, by sponsoring the French yacht in the America's Cup race and by launching a worldwide corporate-branding campaign that uses animated figures set to the 1980 disco hit Funkytown. The intended message, company officials say: nukes are cool. Claude Mandil, executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, says that public-opinion considerations were never as high in France as elsewhere. And after 30 years of living with nuclear energy, the French have grown used...
...crowd proves to be more Urban Outfitters than urban proletariat. After some well-manicured posturing, they all join her for an inexplicable group Dance Dance Revolution session, accompanied by synchronized neo-disco handtwirls from the whole crowd (the lone segment where dance style and music sync up coherently...
...Just look at that screen shot. The video is that murky, unpleasant, and nonsensical, for three and a half minutes. As in “Power Out,” the animators repeat sequences several times to make up for their faltering creative facilities, subjecting us to police-disco-light-shuffling neighbors over and over. I guess the major problem here isn’t simply that these videos are subpar in their own right, but that they really fail to do justice to a generation-defining album. Moreover, they seem to take it one step further, adhering...
...tenacity of a man whom a former colleague compares to a "terrier that doesn't let go once it has sunk his teeth into something." Speaking to reporters, Mehlis, best known for obtaining a difficult conviction of four people involved in the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco, refused to address the widespread Lebanese suspicion that Hariri's murder was ordered by the Syrian regime. Mehlis said, however: "We do think more people were involved." Last week, the U.S. State Department demanded that Syrian President Bashar Assad cooperate with the U.N. investigation, which thus far has been prevented from interrogating...
Urban Outfitters' fall collection, a favorite among high schoolers, includes ankle-length '70s-print dresses, oversize knit vests and tuxedo vests like those from the disco era. Old Navy is also in on the act with beaded jean jackets and sheer floral blouses to be worn over camisoles...