Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They also like to dance on it. South of town is the Stardusty Ballroom, where twice a week in season 300 ballroom dancers fox-trot and waltz to the supple beat of a five-piece band that displays its name, Desert Varnish, on maroon baseball caps. The dance floor is made of plywood panels, and the ceiling is the blue Arizona sky. DANCE AT YOUR OWN RISK reads the sign posted near a huge cactus. Couples dance in the desert, romance hovering like heat haze; some dress in matching colors. Stuck in the ground around them are plastic hyacinths, windmills...
...senior bar where, wonder of wonders, there was room to dance. After several of the computerized drum tracks that pass for dance tunes these days, the Village People's 1978 hit "YMCA" erupted over the stereo. And in a burst of 1970s nostalgia, the dance floor exploded with seniors doing the dance we all remembered, forming the letters of the title with our bodies during the chorus...
...first interview with a U.S. magazine, Eduard Shevardnadze met with TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and correspondent Ann Blackman last week in a small sitting room next to his office on the seventh floor of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. After handing over his written answers to several questions that had been submitted in advance, the Soviet Foreign Minister spent 45 minutes fielding spontaneous questions...
...Foreign Ministry for a summary of international news. By the time he arrives at the pinnacled Stalinist skyscraper in Smolensky Square just before 9 a.m., he has been briefed on events and can plunge immediately into the pile of diplomatic cables and documents awaiting him in his seventh-floor office...
...negotiations had dragged on all night at Pusan's Dongeui University, but by dawn the 100 students on the seventh floor of the school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...