Word: socko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teen-agers and is snaking all over Kansas City, Mo. 's Arrowhead Stadium. Turning toward the stage, the churning serpent finds a lion's voice: "Chicago, Chicago!" As 35,000 spectators pick up the chant, seven young men amble onstage to join the Beach Boys for a socko finale. They are the group known as Chicago. With five guitarists, two drummers and a three-piece brass section wailing, the combined bands form a rock juggernaut that quickly transforms the stadium into an enormous, throbbing, outdoor discotheque. The crowd has been on its feet for most...
...past few years have been dull for leg watchers, frustrated by loose slacks and droopy skirts that conceal only drab gray and blah beige pantyhose. Suddenly, however, legs are coming alive in the dazzling burst of colors, stripes and patterns that characterizes the new socko look...
What happens at this point is that delicious sensation of letting-go familiar to readers of huge 19th century novels, but much less readily available to a moviegoer today. A skilled popular artist -the kind of man who can blend subtly observed details with a gift for socko showmanship-takes over to lead a guided tour of an exotic yet humanly recognizable and completely realized world. That's really entertainment...
...stars and extras, angels and hellions, hookers and authors, Variety is holy writ, even if its writing often plays havoc with the English language. A lead story last week about efforts to clean up Times Square, also known as Broadway, carried this one-sentence socko para: "Specifically, Times Square's polyglot floating population, the porno pix and the massage parlors remain a hard-core hard-nose hurdle...
...producer. The story began to take on dimension and life when Prince suggested that the title be changed. "Before, the play was full of action," Prince recalls. "The new script was as close to plotless as you can get." So plotless, in fact, that roles were inserted when socko auditions were delivered by Actresses Ethel Shutta and Fifi d'Orsay?who premiered in 1925 with Gallagher and Shean in the Greenwich Village Follies. They were found subjects as, in a way, was Yvonne De Carlo, who seemed wrong for the role of Phyllis but fit perfectly the rebuilt part...