Word: discos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts; the movie is a hi-cal Pop-Tart to go. At the Deca Dance disco, a teenybopper flashes past wearing earrings cut from American Express cards. "They're my dad's," she confides in a gag that doesn't waste a millisecond of screen time...
...tired of the Waterloo (you won't), you can always hit The Palace in downtown Nassau. This club is a typical New York-style disco, including--yes, you guessed it--a hydraulical dance floor with flashing lights, which moves up and down, and looks like a spaceship...
Hair alone, on Broadway and through its many "tribes," or traveling companies, launched an army of performers who went on to mold the culture of the past two decades. Among them: the proto-punker Meat Loaf, Donna Summer, the Disco Queen of the late '70s, and Diane Keaton, who neatly embodied the postrevolutionary woman in Annie Hall. All ancestries link...
Then, a couple of years ago, the Royalton stopped answering its phone. Crazy stories circulated, all true. There were new owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the Merry-Andrews who ran the wildly successful disco Studio 54 a decade before (and shared a cell in federal prison for evading taxes on the disco's income). To reinvent everything from door knobs to plumbing, they hired Philippe Starck, a Euro-glitz wild man usually described as a French biker-designer (he is French, rides a big motorcycle and designs things...
...most people the pleasure lies in the atmospherics, the dressing up and stepping out. After a few years of deafening disco, couples appreciate chandeliers that do not revolve, single-sex bathrooms, peachy lighting, a buttery floor, music they can talk over or sing to. Some people take care to dress the part, the men in black tie, the women in suede-bottom shoes and vintage gowns, or handmade black taffeta Gay Nineties skirts set off with antique purses and peacock feathers in their hair...