Word: discos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athletes also raised a little hell back at the Olympic Village, where Orwellian security measures were putting everyone on edge. Frustrations finally boiled over one night at the village discothèque, where several dozen Western athletes protested the customary 11 o'clock closing. As disco infernos go, it was pretty mild stuff: some boozy scuffling with Soviet police, a lot of hollering, a small-scale food fight. But Soviet officialdom took it very seriously, as a headline from TASS, the state news agency, made clear: THEY SHOULD BE THROWN BEHIND BARS...
...Dance: Part One" is a disco track; and it seems appropriate at this point to write a little in defense of disco. Disco never got much of a press, except from people like Time; Rolling Stone ran a disco issue at the insistence of publisher Jann Wenner, who Jagger once described to Chet Flippo as "that cunt of a boss of yours," but it went over like a suckling pig at Passover. Rock critics have always worn their contempt for disco as a sort of cachet of superior taste, and it's always seemed more than a little unfair, particularly...
MARRIED. Donna Summer, 31, queen of disco music; and Bruce Sudano, 31, lead guitarist of her backup band, Brooklyn Dreams; she for the second time, he for the first; in Los Angeles. The couple are expecting a child early next year...
...coincidentally promoting the Village People's new album. (The title song consumes the final eleven minutes of screen time.) It is hard to get angry about this harmless, weightless enterprise, an attempt to blend the spirit of the opulent old MGM musicals with the jackhammer sound of disco. The movie brings a certain chaotic zest to the group's Y.M.C.A., transforming it into a lavender update of a Busby Berkeley danceathon; and Paul Sand performs comic wonders with the role of a manic music executive. But there is no style here. Producer Allan Carr's guiding principle...
Borg's closest friend on the circuit is Gerulaitis, a free spirit whose disco-haunting life-style seems the antithesis of Borg's stay-at-home predilections. "Vitas likes to practice as much as I do," Borg explains. Gerulaitis calls Borg "a very private guy. He's got opinions on lots of subjects but doesn't talk much." So Borg remains an enigma to most of the players. Says Solomon: "I spent a week playing exhibitions with him, and I don't think we talked a total of ten minutes. Bjorn is quiet, real quiet and contained...