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Okay, He Wore Polyester. But He Still Speaks to Us.
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Three decades later, even Tony's prized coiffure ("Would you just watch the hair?" he tells his father. "I work a long time on my hair, and you hit it!") has become an often-mocked symbol.
But this strangely serious film turns out to have anticipated some of our current predicament. "Life goin' nowhere," moaned the Bee Gees in "Stayin' Alive," the film's signature song. "Somebody help me."
Bruce J. Schulman is professor of history at Boston University and the author
of "The Seventies."
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