Word: discoing
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Yang Hua's passport is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali disco bombing in 2002. He has logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar as well as the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. And Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. In fact, they're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels like SAUDI SWEET. Yang, it turns out, works...
...conversion of romantic poetry to electric signals weren’t avant-garde enough—a disco ball suspended from the ceiling then projected this encoded verse onto the gallery walls, inundating viewers in a dizzying whirlpool of light and color...
...main installation consists of seven crystal chandeliers, all from different periods, sporadically pulsing Morse code versions of a series of texts. This time though, computers mounted on the gallery walls take the place of the disco ball, displaying in readable form excerpts from a wide variety of cinematic, literary and philosophical sources...
...Studio is one of the few places in Boston devoted exclusively to karaoke, with separate rooms for private parties. This grungy venue is decorated with cheesy fake flowers and psychedelic art illuminated by black lights. With the flip of a switch, mood lighting and disco balls turn the rooms into an Austin Powers extravaganza...
...Taking the rhythms of the Punjab and combining them with jubilant pop hooks, Mehndi introduced the world to a new dance genre, bhangra, that was happier than hip-hop and as irresistible as disco. Bhangra clubs sprang up around the world, fostering a movement that today stretches from the Punjab to Paris, from London's Southall to Manhattan's Soho. And Mehndi was bhangra's king. He released six albums that sold millions worldwide, and his deliriously cheerful tunes (with names like "Bolo Tararara") defined a new sound for kids and clubbers alike. In 1999 an American critic, stunned...