Word: discoing
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Great things happened in 1970s America. We celebrated our Bicentennial, birthed both “Jaws” and “Star Wars,” and impeached a president. By the end of the decade, we were also home to around 15,000 discothèques. Disco was a four billion dollar industry, yet my mother still has an avowed hatred the most popular musical genre of her early youth. “I was really more of a funk girl,” she would claim, turning the dial as a Gloria Gaynor tune came across...
...that made the Killers’ first two albums so successful, it is clear that the group is trying to expand to an even broader audience. Moving beyond their synthesizers and electric guitars, “Day & Age” introduces new sounds, like steel drums, saxophone breaks, and disco orchestration. There are even a cappella background vocals in “This Is Your Life.” Producer Stuart Price—whose résumé includes work with Madonna and Seal—attempts to mix this hodgepodge of new sound into something resembling genius...
...back in Haifa, where the war didn't exist." We follow his shell-shocked, teenaged self as he wanders the streets, numbly watching a rock guitarist on a store TV, kids in an arcade blasting video baddies, and finally his ex-girlfriend dancing with another guy under disco lights that are like the flares showering down on Beirut...
...Wonder Room has a disco-like light-up floor, into which games are programmed, as well as a climbing wall and padding for the hurt-free throwing about of one's person. Children are allowed to choose which activities they want to pursue, and initially, says kindergarten teacher Nancy Simko, they all scramble for the Wonder Room. But with weekly visits from the yoga specialist, the therapeutic-ball specialist and the puppeteer, the kids are soon tempted away...
...were around Mt. Auburn St. on Saturday night, then you probably heard the music blasting from Hillel as dozens of students got together to celebrate Harvard’s bar mitzvah in style. On the dance floor, a disco ball colored the walls as a DJ blasted everything from Miley to T-Pain, transforming the worship room into a shrine to the party gods...