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Word: discos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the Super Bowl fast approaching, Susan has lapsed into total Forty-Niner adoration. A record that recently arrived in the mail from home entitled, "Go Forty-Niners" blasts from our stereo system constantly. Although we tolerated almost any form of music--from opera to disco--this song has driven all of us away in despair. A cross between hokey Western nasal twanging and weak rock-and-roll, this particular fight song--coined especially for Sunday's big event--boasts cloying lyrics like, "Go Forty-Niners/Take it all the way/You can win the Super Bowl/And keep the trophy...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Frenzied Forty-Niner Fanaticism | 1/22/1982 | See Source »

...updating never interferes with the music. In fact, many of his innovations involve clever exploitation of the Handel score. The bouncy rhythms of Dorinda's first-act aria on the ineffable nature of love--she's the beach bunny, nee shepherdess--become the excuse for an hilarious mock-disco strut. Later in the opera, when Dorinda sings of love's bitterness, it is Sellars's inspiration that she pour herself a stiff drink between repetitions (all Orlando's arias consist of six or eight lines repeated again and again), with the result that her octave leaps slowly become sozzled hiccups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stellar Handel | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...Isle on September 1, 1982 to play some of the country's club and university teams. "The trip is going to happen--I can't believe it," she enthused. The squad expects to raise the additional $5000 necessary for the trip through hat sales, a dance at the Metro disco in the spring, and a Friends fundraising letter...Juniors KATE MARTIN and MAUREEN FINN were selected as the hockey team's co-captains for the 1982-'83 season at their recent banquet. Finn served as a co-captain this season, and Martin is currently acting as a co-captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Field Hockey Gets $10,000; Carrabino Clan Appears At Stanford | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

Those who prefer to listen to "Super Freak" instead of power rock should consider party at the Holiday Inn on 30 Whalle Avenue. Located across the street from Fitzwilly's, the hotel plans a pregame disco party on Friday night from...

Author: By Bruce K. Mcmeekin, | Title: In Search of the Perfect Post-Game Party | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...club, they ahve built-in instant recognition value. Barland Jeffreys did this to "96 Tears", Karla DeVito (on her astoundingly titled album, Is this a Cool World or WHAT?) recycled "Midnight Confessions." Last summer's "Stars on 45" melded dozens of these songs into one disco fiasco...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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