Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line of customers makes its way from the brightly-lit basement into the swanky nightclub, with its soft red and blue lighting--it's still pretty warm inside, but at least the laundry smell is gone. A maitred' greets each party...
...blonder and fairer of us attracted the glance of a Italian in a dark linen suit, who was taking effete puffs from a slender cigarette, sending a halo of smoke around his coiffed head. Actually, he was only a hotel official on break, but he handed us some nightclub passes, which was all that really mattered...
...soda, none of us could figure out what had happened to Caroline the night before, but we felt sure she had declined Tony's offer to live on his yacht (sailing to Colombia) for the next three months. Suffice it to say that she was seen wearing a silk nightclub jacket for the next three days...
...tizzy began when the Ottawa Citizen ran a story saying that Coates and two aides, in Europe on a NATO tour, had stopped off at the nightclub, where Coates, it appears, did no more than have a drink at the bar and chat with one of the strippers. Nonetheless, the Citizen quoted an unnamed former Canadian intelligence source to the effect that the visit might have jeopardized the Minister's top-security status...
Proprieties tend to wilt in the pervasive heat. In Lord Short Shoe Wants the Monkey, a rising calypso singer strikes a deal at a Barbados nightclub with a white man who owns a trained monkey; the performer gets the onstage use of the animal, and the owner gets a night with a stunning black woman in the singer's entourage. Overhearing this transaction, an American visitor solemnly interrupts: "Gentlemen, forgive me. You cannot trade a woman for a monkey...