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Word: discos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once in a single day, Thayer, whose favorite hobby is flying military jets, piloted an F16, an F-15 and an F18, danced into the small hours at a local disco, and returned in the morning to fly the prototype of a B-1 bomber. He is an avid wild-game hunter ( he decorates his office with his kills) , a motorcycle enthusiast, an expert skier and an amateur rodeo rider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life with Paul and Billy Bob | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...million tickets through its network of 1,200 nationwide outlets and a growing charge-by-phone operation. Meanwhile, new competitors and services are springing up at a rapid pace. A phone call can now get you tickets to museum shows, an evening at New York's Studio 54 disco, a spot at one of California's crowded campsites, or a seat at the Educational Testing Service's next Graduate Record Examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Goodbye to the Ticket Line | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...Schaumburg Snuggery could be converted to a roadhouse from a John O'Hara novel; a juke joint from the Big Band era; a belly-up beer parlor with a platform for a three-piece oldies combo; or the only place in America where no one has heard that disco is dead. A perfect period set-for any period-if it were not for those screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing a Song of Seeing | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...sermon to the birds, which was intended to be the high point. What was supposed to be a grand laser spectacle representing the flight of the birds in the shape of a cross is instead something more suitable to a light show in a down-at-the-heels disco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let the Secrets of Glory Open | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Good morning, ladies! And a one, and a two .. . What's that? Too tuckered out to tuck in that tummy? Can't move your feet to the pounding disco beat? Well, if Jane Fonda, Christie Brinkley, Victoria Principal and other celebrity purveyors of fat-fighting exercises haven't helped, try Debbie Reynolds. The awesomely ebullient Reynolds has put together a new video and record for fed-up flabbies. It is called Do It Debbie's Way. Says she: "I'm 51, in fairly good condition, and on the road 42 weeks a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 5, 1983 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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