Word: discos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slated to come out with new novels within the year. So did Ellis' plans to move to Gotham cause any uptightness between the two? Relax, man. "I got tired of people saying 'You must hate Bret Ellis,' " says McInerney, who decided to hold a party at Manhattan's Tunnel disco to welcome his friend to the city. "There's been no feud between Jay and me," confirms Ellis. "I'm actually a boring person. I work from 11 to 7, then at night Jay calls." And you thought Tad Allagash was a fictional character...
...role of the folk artist, won an Olivier Award, the West End's equivalent of a Tony, for her performance. At Charleston, she once again convincingly blended the workaday and the visionary, making an audience see glory even in Douglas Heap's set -- in truth, reminiscent of a tatty disco. Her manic scurrying in denial of advancing age was a shrewd counterpoint to the prematurely world-weary languidness of Charlotte Cornwell, repeating her role as the friend, a disillusioned teacher of mixed-race youths. The Charleston version, which Fugard terms definitive, achieved the resonance between the mundane and the metaphysical...
...achieve through manipulative means wholly in contradiction with fundamental American values about honesty and forthrightness in government. Making matters more repulsive was a report a few weeks later which showed that the Administration doctored the evidence it did not invent implicating Khadaffy in the bombing of a West German disco the year before which led to the death of an American soldier and the U.S. bombing of Tripoli...
...productive because it seems to rule out any consumption in late a.m. and early p.m. hours, a prime brew-swilling period. The images that flashed before my eyes left me equally cold. Unless your idea of a hot night on the town consists of sitting in a neon-lit disco and watching Phil Collins' hairline recede, this brand fails to reach the acceptable level of sociability...
...begin research for my book, Disco: Now, Then--and Forever...