MoDowd, 1984 Edition

We owe Choire Sicha a beer for digging up a 5112 word New York Times Magazine piece from 1984 written by an extremely young Maureen Dowd all about, well… staying up all night and clubhopping with Andy Warhol. Seriously. This thing is genius:

On Monday nights, Area offers ”obsession” nights—with fixations such as sex, pets and body oddities. At a recent ”sex evening,” nude jugglers and whip dancers moved in and out of the crowd while an ex-nun heard sexual confessions in the ladies’ room and an old man played with inflatable dolls in a pool.

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