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...vulgarity falls from the garish costumes, the trashy props, and the giant neon arch--inscribed with the names of the seven sins lighting up in succession like a stage-wide slot machine that lands on whichever sins is being acted out below. In this world, beauty becomes a painted go-go dancer, so it's no wonder lust, pride and anger should seem more virtuous than the alternatives of self-denial, hypocrisy and quiescence...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Brecht in Boldface | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

...sexy voice, saying: "Hi. I'm Suzanne. Y'all buckle your seat belts and don't dare get up. We don't want anything happening to you now because we love you." The stewardesses, personally selected by Muse himself, sported tight hot pants and leather go-go boots. In-flight drinks were known as "love potions," and cash registers that issued tickets were "love machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inspiring Muse | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...Souped-Up Sleigh to Hughes, the thing turns out to be as awful as the title. A little later Dummar's wife Lynda, fed up with the futility of her husband's vague schemes, takes their child and leaves him to find work as a go-go dancer in a topless joint. Outraged, Melvin turns up at the place one evening and commences to make a terrible scene just before Lynda sheds her top. When she protests heatedly, "But I love to dance," one sees that she is not kidding, that inside her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desert Dream | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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