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...some Rube Goldberg perpetual-motion machine, prancing on those fine filly legs like the winner of the strumpet's marathon, Bette uses her body as an inexhaustible source of sight gags. She shimmies it, twists it, upends it to reveal polka-dot bloomers. In 1978 at the London Palladium she flashed the front of it; at Harvard she exposed the rear. She has made a cottage industry of her buxom bosom. In the 1985 album Mud Will Be Flung Tonight, she confesses that she once consulted a postage scale to determine just how heavy her breasts were...
...next day, fearing another bloody melee, officials at the Hollywood Palladium canceled a Run-D.M.C. concert. The band, however, blamed lax security for the riot. Joseph ("Run") Simmons, 21, who with Partner Daryll ("D.M.C.") McDaniels became the first rap artist to produce a platinum album (1 million copies sold), defended his group. "Rap music has nothing to do with crack or crime," he said. "Check my lyrics. I'm a role model for kids, and I go out of my way to give them a positive message...
Still, the problem of idle ambition persists. The British example suggests a solution: a third American house of Congress, devoted to and peopled exclusively by celebrities. A House of Bores. Headquartered, to keep the commute tolerable, in the Hollywood Palladium...
...easily confused with the local rock talent (Cargo Cult, Live Skull), which is no accident. The relationship between music and design is especially tight along these streets. The designers catch a spirit from the tunes, and tune in to new ideas at clubs as various as the trendy-tony Palladium and the ever elusive Love Club, which moves at regular intervals. "The clubs are where you go to find out what people are wearing," says Stephen Saban, associate editor of Details, which began chronicling the downtown scene four years ago and has fast become the smartest style magazine...
...designers of Palladium have highlighted the theatrical aspects of the interior by positioning the dance floor where the stage used to be. People-watching is further encouraged by the conversion of the ascending rows, which once held seats, into pillowed lounge areas...