Word: shalamar
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...family has been in the restaurant business a long time," says Jaspal Pabla, one of three owners of the restaurant. Pabla's family also owns the Cafe of India down the street, Shalamar of India in Central Square and the Kashmir in Boston...
...thundering hoofbeats that always preceded the Indians in old westerns, Paramount's new hit musical Footloose was heard well before it was seen. The title song, performed by Kenny Loggins, was sent to radio stations six weeks before the movie opened. A second single from the movie, Shalamar's Dancing in the Sheets, was released three weeks later, and a third, Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for Hero, a week after that. The sound-track album and a promotional video also came out weeks before the movie. When the film itself finally opened around the country...
...music almost everywhere is "disco sound": heavy back beat, uptempo, often with Big Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood...
...with the saddest life gets the refrigerator. It's like watching a medieval morality play with all the vices paraded before you-avarice, for instance." As for The $64,000 Challenge, on which he flunked out at the $8,000 level when he failed to identify the Shalamar Gardens, he recalls: "The air conditioning in my booth broke down, and I came out, my ears popping, gasping for breath. I was preceded by a ten-year-old boy who used up all the air spelling very long words...
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