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...client's associates to an elegant restaurant ($110 a person) where, seated on cushions on a tatami-covered floor, they dined on a twelve-course meal that included clear soup, sashimi and tempura. That contrasted with the group's next stop, a Western-style nightspot, where Cardin-clad hostesses poured liberal amounts of whisky and brandy. Cost for the after-dinner stop, which continued until well after 11 p.m., was $360. "I don't like entertaining," says Nohmura, "but it has become an institution. If you persist in being a reformer, you would go to pieces...
Amid his endless patter of "Howya-dooin's," the giggling of three teen-age girls catches Hope's attention. Chirping and darting looks at one another, the youngsters ask him the way to a local nightspot. Hope savors the moment, then points the direction. As he watches them wiggle off into the night, he nudges his visitor and whispers out of the side of his mouth, "What do you think? You want to go dancing?" - By E. Graydon Carter
...quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until all hours of the night in this or that nightspot, especially Xenon, a voguish discotheque off Times Square. If she seems jumpy this afternoon, it is because tonight she is going to Xenon not to dance or just mingle but to sing, in front of hundreds of paying customers...
Combining a lacerating ferocity with a sometimes silly sententiousness, the play unfolds in a couple of dozen revue-style blackouts without intermission. A stranger in a bar steers Edmond to a nightspot with B-girls, but Edmond quibbles over the whore's price and departs in a rage. In swift succession, he is conned and savagely beaten up in a game of three-card monte, and thrown out of a fleabag hotel by a seedy clerk. He pawns his gold ring and buys a "survival knife." When a black pimp tries to mug him, Edmond rewards his assailant with...
When French Dance Student Isabelle Michalowski, 17, wants to find a local nightspot that is still open during the summer vacation, she lets her fingers do the walking-not through the Yellow Pages, but across the keyboard of a computer console. Using the small video terminal that has been provided by the state-owned French telephone company, she punches a few keys and then taps out the words DISCOS-RENNES. Seconds later the names, addresses and telephone numbers flash on the screen. She then hits another button and an illustrated advertisement appears on the screen. It reads...