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...sermon to the birds, which was intended to be the high point. What was supposed to be a grand laser spectacle representing the flight of the birds in the shape of a cross is instead something more suitable to a light show in a down-at-the-heels disco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let the Secrets of Glory Open | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Good morning, ladies! And a one, and a two .. . What's that? Too tuckered out to tuck in that tummy? Can't move your feet to the pounding disco beat? Well, if Jane Fonda, Christie Brinkley, Victoria Principal and other celebrity purveyors of fat-fighting exercises haven't helped, try Debbie Reynolds. The awesomely ebullient Reynolds has put together a new video and record for fed-up flabbies. It is called Do It Debbie's Way. Says she: "I'm 51, in fairly good condition, and on the road 42 weeks a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 5, 1983 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...never heard a movie actor talk, never imagined a television screen. Technology kept bringing new transformations: long-playing records, high-speed cameras, videotape equipment. Not only arts changed but audiences as well. Local orchestras, opera, ballet and theater companies proliferated. So did the electronic babel (sitcom disc-jockey disco-rock singing commercial) that now seems an inescapable fact of life. In the age of the mass audience, more people could watch a Shakespeare play on TV than had ever seen it in all previous performances; more still watch network fare like Three's Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art and Its Rewards: Some Creators who Made News that Stayed News | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh, yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, gape and be gaped at. Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Disco music blared from the speakers and a gospel group called Silver Linings performed for the crowd...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Washington Comes to Boston to Back King | 8/9/1983 | See Source »

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