Word: disco
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...offering fragments of dialogue and images to complement his music. "Up The Hill Backwards," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Because You're Young" are abstruse in specific meaning, but convey a definite mood of danger and intrigue. The weakest track, "Fashion," is also the easiest to understand, a meditation on disco culture of little import...
...despite the company he keeps. Cartier Heiress and Chairman Nathalie Hocq, 29, personally arranged the intimate dinner for 879 and subsequent party for 1,500, chartering eight Mystère-Falcon 20 jets to transport jet-setters to Paris from seven foreign cities. "This party represents the antithesis of disco," proclaimed the proud hostess. "It symbolizes a return to the lifestyle of the past, to classicism and to beauty," she added, perhaps before catching a glimpse of Mile. Deneuve's date...
...wrote the band's first major hit in two years, Takin ' It to the Streets, and helped change the Doobies from journeymen to super stars. McDonald's sprightly, airy tunes telescoped neatly with Templeman's cushy production. The results had hints of funk and disco, discreet jazz inflections and uninsistent horn breaks, and sounded like contemporary nightclub music. McDonald, who professes vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song...
MARRIED. Henry Ford II, 63, retired Ford Motor Co. chairman; and Kathleen DuRoss, 40, ex-model and Detroit disco owner; he for the third time, she for the second; in Carson City, Nev. Earlier this year he divorced his second wife, Cristina Ford, giving her a reported $15 million settlement...
Fashions in movie genres hit Hollywood in successive waves of benign silliness. Remember the gang-war cycle, the roller-disco pix, the movies about movie stuntmen? Now there's another improbable genre: Noah's ark meets the road movie. Within the past year, three films have told the story of a salt-of-the-earth guy and a sugar-and-spice gal who meet, fight and find true love while trucking cross-country in the company of large animals. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed...