Word: discothã
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...film opens in London only this week, but the force is already there. Discoth??ques have been playing the music for months, and London papers don't look complete these days without a Star Wars cartoon, joke or picture. One daily, the Evening News, is even running a picture-studded serialization to boost circulation. The two giant theaters where the movie will play have already racked up $320,000 in advance ticket sales?more than three times the previous record. Said a theater spokesman: "It's easier to get knightedm than buy Star Wars tickets." "I've been in this...
...almost visibly, into the age of mass-consumer, pop-culture society, and the last thing it wants is austerity. The evidence of that attitude is almost everywhere. The France of sunny sidewalk cafés and smoky boîtes is now, also, the France of 536 Wimpy hamburger mills, dizzy discoth??ques and monumental traffic jams. Vacationers on the Côte d'Azur looking for bargain accommodations now stop at modern motels as well as at the traditional spartan pensions...
...offered the rash prediction to radio listeners that "we will destroy Israel in four days." In Damascus, schools were closed, more in celebration than precaution against air raids, and schoolchildren, singing rhythmically, filled sandbags and placed them around public buildings. Having no prepared shelters, the Syrians hastily converted two discoth??ques. In Beirut, supplies of laundry bluing, vegetable dye and blue paint quickly ran out as drivers rushed to darken their headlights. The nouveau-modern Phoenicia Hotel painted all its windows on the first five floors in blue so that some of its guests could have light during the blackout...