[C]reated with the help of architects Lee Mindel and Peter Shelton, Bond International Casino (or, simply, Bond's), which opens next month, promises to be the most memorable attempt at discophilia since Studio 54 opened three years ago.

“Trapeze” begins with pizzicatos that plunge into a circuslike cacophony with rapid trills, busy, clashing textures and motion in every direction.

Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?

No-one railed against them more persistently than Norman Mailer, for whom 'creeping plasticism' was taking over the world.