(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
(3) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
(4) Pamela is grateful for the family's financial security, aware that she and David have come a long way together since they met more than 20 years ago at the Winnock Hotel disco in Drymen, just outside the well-heeled Bearsden suburb of Glasgow.
(5) The whole scene of disco-loving Italians, as mythologised in Saturday Night Fever , was exaggerated.
(6) Computed tomography-discography (disco-CT) was the most accurate test (87%) compared to 77% for CT-myelography (myelo-CT), 74% for CT, 70% for myelography, 64% for disc injection pain, and 58% for discography.
(7) Roger Kirkby: Best delay ever was the disco demolition at the White Sox game in between a double header, White Sox forfeited the second game 9 - 0 If a team ever did this, but with Bruce Springsteen albums, I would become their biggest fan.
(8) After so long being derided, is this disco's revenge?
(9) In order to understand the role of disco in establishing this connection, we isolated and characterized the disco gene.
(10) The hit single "Around the World" displayed a then-unfashionable love of disco which attracted the attention of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
(11) They were shot at a disco at midnight; by 11am the print was up on the wall.
(12) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(13) Though she will be remembered for disco classics such as Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love, Donna Summer , who has died of cancer aged 63, notched up many achievements in a career lasting more than 40 years.
(14) The worst previous attack on US soldiers in Germany was in 1986, when a bomb was planted in a Berlin disco.
(15) When prompted with the question, “That’s not a no though?”, Prince replied, “No.” Later that night, Prince turned up at the one-time roller disco in north London to play a set to a few dozen elated journalists and, towards the end of the show, a swarm of even more elated fans.
(16) I've known them both since my first play, Disco Pigs , some 17 years ago, when we were drinking in Edinburgh's Traverse bar and pulling shapes in Stockbridge.
(17) There’s a lot of focus on robotisation, with anthropomorphic white creatures now capable of disco dancing in unison .
(18) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
(19) Knuckles, who is credited to have invented the house genre, begun his residency at the westside club in 1977 at the height of disco fever, but by 1980 a backlash had swept the craze away.
(20) When the Disco Sucks backlash killed the disco movement, Knuckles evolved his sound, making reel-to-reel re-edits for the Warehouse crowd.
Hustle
Definition:
(v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
(v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.
Example Sentences:
(1) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
(2) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
(3) "You regroup and start hustling again, but it's crucial that you believe in your own creative processes.
(4) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
(5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
(6) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
(7) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
(8) Every mainland resident aspires to move to the island someday, which is why the Lagos Hustle will never stop.
(9) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
(10) Spike Jonze's Her joined American Hustle as one of the unexpected early frontrunners in the awards race after being named as best film of the year by the National Board of Review.
(11) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was hustled away from Parliament Hill and was safe, a spokesperson confirmed .
(12) One cannot help but admire the bovine hustle with which the Labour party and most of the commentariat converged on the story that it had lost the election not because it had chosen the wrong Miliband, but because it had failed to address voters’ “aspirations”.
(13) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
(14) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
(15) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(16) Both American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave are expected to be among the nominees for the 2014 Oscars, which will be announced on 16 January.
(17) Similarly Henville, who has served prison time for drug offences, is shown trying to go straight (“I didn’t rob anyone or hustle anyone – I was just trying to be a young entrepreneur at the time,” he says of days as a dealer).
(18) Tony Jordan, who had a hand in several of the pivotal television dramas of the past 20 years, from EastEnders to Hustle and Life on Mars, is reminiscing over his formative years as a market-stall holder partly because he has just launched a competition to find new writers for his recently formed production company Red Planet.
(19) To get to the beach, they were hustled through a small gap in a fence that lined the sand.
(20) The Nativity has been a long-standing project for Jordan (Life on Mars, Hustle, EastEnders), who began researching it five years ago .