Word: discoth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today, 17 months after his death, she still belongs to the people like some uncrowned queen. Now that her period of public mourning is past, she has been gradually trying to resume life as a private person. She has gingerly ventured forth to the theater and an occasional discothèque, taken her children skiing and to the circus. But she is still trailed wherever she goes by the watchful eye of the Secret Service, finds herself still subjected to some of the burdens of public life...
...Daisy is a discothèque, run as a "club" by its owner, Jack Hanson, inventor of Tax slacks. He decides who will be allowed to pay a $250 "membership fee." Thus not the least of the pleasures of belonging is the knowledge -swiftly telegraphed throughout the movie colony-that one night recently, both Peter O'Toole and Jason Robards Jr. were turned away because they weren't members or members' guests. Another of the Daisy's pleasures is that it has some of the most eye-filling females in the U.S. frugging and swimming their...
...with an oil company than a houri-filled paradise. For hundreds of years Moslem women have had to endure the restrictions of purdah-seclusion and heavy veiling. The liberated young ladies of Lebanon, long freed from purdah, now wear bikinis on the beaches of Beirut, dance the watusi at discothèques, and even marry Christians. "The young intelligentsia are fighting to modernize," says Dr. Régis Blachère of Paris' Institute of Islamic Studies. "They would like Islam to be an ethic without the limitations of practices in contradiction to modern life...
...Sometimes it does not seem they are even trying. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discothèques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have stocking to cover, and American males are scrambling for the best vantage point...
...winter of our discothèque, and with a pair of teen-agers like Prince Charles, 16, and Princess Anne, 14, Mum and Dad might have known what to expect. To celebrate the holidays, the royal rockers rolled back the red carpet in the drawing room of Windsor Castle, then asked 120 chums over for a dinner of hors d'oeuvres and turkey. Main course was the frug, to the big beat played for Their Highnesses by a disk jockey who rents himself and his $3,000 hi-fi rig for just such occasions. Party over, host and hostess...