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...half-hour later, everyone's moved downstairs into the theater, and it's time for Travolta's official presentation. The band strikes up a sort of Broadway-tuned "Stayin' Alive," and he strides down the aisle, anxiously tugs his bowtie, smiles as a small army of press cameras assaults him, and takes a seat. The show's producers take the stage, nervously fumble their introduction, and Travolta moves towards the mike. And stands there. Sheepishly, he throws his arm into a Saturday Night Fever diagonal, to cheers; then the band steps in to save him--playing "Happy Birthday," it conveniently...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...Garry Howatt at one point), rammed a Peter McNab set-up past Islander goalie Billy Smith from the bottom of the right face-off circle at 17:13 of overtime to return the series to Boston and change the night's theme song from "We Are the Champions" to "Stayin' Alive...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Bruins Pull Out 4-3 Win in Overtime | 4/22/1980 | See Source »

...Stayin' Alive...

Author: By Nancy R. Page, | Title: Health Services Officials Report Outbreak of German Measles | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...dance floor. For the first time since 1966, when the Cultural Revolution outlawed all social dancing as decadent, students at Peking University were trying out some stately fox trots. Before the normalization ceremonies, Chinese officials at Peking's International Club began dancing cautiously to the disco beat of Stayin' Alive from Saturday Night Fever. Peking Radio startled its listeners by repeatedly playing Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land ("From California to the New York Island, . . . This land was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tying the Sino-American Knot | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...line that pushes and pulses, they have one of the biggest-grossing albums in history (partly because the Saturday Night Fever sound track is two records and costs twice as much as a single-unit album . . . but let the accountants quibble). Night Fever is the No. 1 single, and Stayin' Alive, which occupied that slot for four weeks, is now nestled comfortably under it in the No. 2 position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Bee Gees: They Make You Feel Like Dancing | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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