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When I--drained by all the noise, shouting and epileptic seizure-inducing strobe lights--fall asleep in a chair during said party, comments about my having passed out are passed along to me the next few days...
...discos are strobe light-years removed from the borax boites of the '60s--most of which died a well-deserved death. In place of the tacky, bare-wall closets wired for din, push and crush, the best new places project sensuality, exclusivity and luxury. And they are booming: there are some 15,000 discos in the U.S. today, v. 3,000 only two years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good restaurants and pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings...
...story on the may day demonstrations in Moscow, Strobe Talbott cites slogans from two banners carried by the demonstrators. Your readers could gain some insights with translations of some of the slogans that appear in your photographs. One states, POWER TO THE PEOPLES AND NOT TO THE PARTIES! Another says, THANK YOU, CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU, FOR THE LIGHT OF CHERNOBYL, WHICH HAS ILLUMINATED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND IMMERSED IT INTO DARKNESS. And then there is the one proclaiming, I HAVE A DEVILISH DESIRE FOR A BIT OF SAUSAGE. LUDMILLA THORNE, Director Soviet Studies, Freedom House New York City...
...here to sell on the street. Not only are products like these readily available, but many stores in Moscow carry products I have never even seen in America. Virtualny Mir (Virtual World), an electronics store, boasts products like a fifty-inch high-definition television with DVD players and a strobe-lit dishwasher with a transparent front. After six years of Western companies cultivating the idea of conspicuous consumption here, the Russians are finally catching...
According to the event's coordinator, David S. Abrams '98, the haunted-house illusion was created by decorating the tunnels in the Adams House basement with streamers, strobe lights and blowing fans...