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Along the way various other things happen: a junior branch officer steals some money; a go-go conglomerate rises and fails; people fall in and out of love; and there is a run of depositers on the bank. All these things are tied together in ways that are too complicated to explain, but it will suffice to say that the novel begins diffusely and then comes together in a manner that is contrived but nagging, insistent...
...go-go era began in the late 1950s and early '60s, with the rise of a generation of bankers unscarred by memories of the Depression's banking disasters. They were determined to fill profitably the ravenous demand for credit aroused by America's postwar affluence. Banks opened new branches wherever the hodgepodge of federal and state regulations permitted; between 1965 and 1975 the number of U.S. commercial banking locations exploded from...
...more apparent than in Shirley Knight's performance as Carla in Children, the Robert Patrick drama now on Broadway about five members of the generation that got lost during the '60s. Carla's dream is to become the next Marilyn. Instead, she ends up an embittered go-go dancer. Knight plays Carla with the depth of understanding of one who might have had that dream herself. She goes beyond Carla's sometimes banal lines to give a poignant picture of a woman whose one distinction has led to defeat. Her performance poses a good...
Smith's special, almost occult power is an ability to read the marketplace. He wrote The Money Game at the peak of the 1960s' go-go stockmarket. In 1972 he successfully sold short with Super Money, an amusing chronicle about the fall of top-heavy conglomerates. Powers of Mind is further evidence that Smith's publishing instincts are like those of a surfer who knows just when to catch the curl of the wave. For the New Purity is upon us-or at least upon the affluent who enroll in TM classes, biofeedback training, Esalen...
...Navy stuffily forgotten a part of the heralded past of the great ships at sea? Last July, Commander Connelly D. Stevenson, 41, permitted a comely go-go dancer to do her uninhibited stuff-topless-aboard his Finback, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, which was docked at Port Canaveral, Fla. Some of the crew figured that the harmless little maneuver would spur morale, and Stevenson went along with the invitation. Indeed, after the ten-minute performance, enthusiastic crew members shouted, hooted and stamped their approval; and the dancer, Cat Futch, 23, got a thank-you buss from Stevenson...