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Chrissy meets them all. She, of course, is a character symbolically known as "poor little me"-alone, afraid and searching for identity ("I got no self). In the end, she opts for the nihilistic anonymity of being a topless go-go dancer in a big city...
...GO-GO YEARS by JOHN BROOKS...
...Go-Go Years, Brooks tells the story of that doomed decade in the market, and a fine moralistic tale it is. Brooks' research is not impeccable. Despite his reputation as a clarifier of financial complexities (Once in Golconda), following his prose requires a working knowledge of market terminology. Some of his stories are long digressions from the sweep of his history. Never mind. He is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers "high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination...
...life caused her to attend 22 schools before she graduated from Smith College in 1963. She intended to be "a famous movie star" but gave it up after only six weeks of trying to be an actress in New York. Over the next few years, she worked as a go-go girl, a public relations agent for a Coney Island animal husbandry exhibit, and social secretary to the Algerian Ambassador in Washington. The story of her subsequent hiring by the Washington Post may contain a moral for those who would make too much of her present lack...
...even joked about solving his financial problems by arranging his own "perfect kidnaping," which police noted was curiously similar in plot to the one in the movie Travels with My Aunt, currently playing in Rome. The night he disappeared he was seen having an argument with a blonde Belgian go-go dancer in the Piazza Navona, where hippies gather. She resisted his passes and he stormed away, yelling back an Italian obscenity...