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...Happening," and a peace symbol adorns a beam. Here officers drop in to rap with the troops. "At coffeehouses off base they scream about the Establishment," notes one colonel. "Here they can scream at the Establishment." Five enlisted men's clubs serve up beer, whisky and go-go girls. In an experiment, the G.I.s have fashioned their quarters into semiprivate cubicles, brightening them with colorful rugs, curtains, posters and pinups...
...this Warhollery is Joe (Joe Dallesandro), a hackneyed, acned chap who goes in for definition of musculature and vagueness of purpose. Joe turns on a chorus line of ladies, gentlemen and hermaphrodites. Alas, Joe himself turns on solely for heroin; he is impotent. Among those he unfulfills: a go-go dancer (Geri Miller), a sex-parched housewife (Andrea Feld-man), and last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker...
...merely one of the supporting lounge acts; they were the "Stopless Topless Skin" and the "Va Va Va Voom" go-go shows. So Proudly was the headline attraction in the hotel's main Congo Room. The nine girls in its 18-member troupe were, of course, not topless or even braless, but all in shimmering red and white. Their show was 90 minutes of All-Americana, professionally rendered, "saluting what's good and right in America." They hymned what Choral Director Johnny Mann called "purty stuff, sentimental stuff and nostalgia," including Roaring Twenties tunes, a historical...
...provide a bigger punch later. The Ikettes sing, dance, and occasionally play maracas. They are essential to the vitality of the show; their choreography translates the rhythmic structure of each song into visual terms. To an effete spectator, it could easily seem corny: the Ikettes hopping around like possessed go-go girls with the Kings of Rhythm swaying from side to side in unison. But that's precisely where the Ike and Tina Revue is at; that is, music that moves and is made to move...
...dazzling but dangerous cult of "performance." This notion, which began taking root in 1965, was that aggressive institutions could wring more profit from a rising market by swinging in and out of glamour issues than by holding on to solid stocks. Trading volume?and brokers' profits?rocketed. Go-go funds made great leaps, and even some staid trust officers in banks joined the stampede to buy and sell. According to a study released last week by the Twentieth Century Fund, the trading policies of mutual funds contributed to "excessive" price swings among small, speculative issues of stocks...