Word: discoing
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...worried about dirty bombs and biowarfare and I know it's comforting to agree, but we're not going to get anywhere if we spend 2003 debating the ethical dilemmas of debtors' prisons and how many fifths of a person a slave is and whether the Stones have gone disco. We need to get back to facing the difficult, finely nuanced, real moral dilemmas facing us today, like J. Lo's wedding...
Twain's desire for privacy is hardly discouraged by him. The Rhodesian-born Lange, 53, started out writing radio jingles before producing heavy metal for AC/DC, disco for Billy Ocean, arena rock for Foreigner and adult contemporary for Bryan Adams. Lange has also written or co-written 135 pop songs, including Do You Believe in Love for Huey Lewis & the News and I Finally Found Someone for Barbra Streisand. He has been honored with numerous awards from the American Society of Composers and Producers and has never accepted a single one. He has not done an interview for 30 years...
...meantime I’d like to offer thanks for the experiences which my few extra years have afforded. First, for the two disco-bopping months I spent in the ’70s. Good times man, good times. Second, for the year off I spent traveling in Italy, snowboarding in Colorado and working in D.C. Call me, we’ll discuss it over wine. And most importantly, my almost uninterrupted access to alcohol during my entire college career...
...genre - rap's Saturday Night Fever, say, or hip-hop's Purple Rain. Those two great sound tracks of the rock-'n'-roll era could not be more different musically. On Fever, the Bee Gees stole vocals from the Chipmunks and beats from the Casablanca records catalog to define disco, while on Purple Rain Prince stole moves from James Brown and licks from Jimi Hendrix to define himself. Yet both albums, and the movies that spawned them, are about the same thing: talent overcoming apathy to talent. Tony Manero wants to rule the world's dance floor; Prince wants...
George Thomas, an elderly guest dressed in a light suit and carrying a metal cane, smiled impishly under a pale cap and bounced his hips back and forth to a disco beat as he traced circles around the room...