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...addition, the mutual funds?notably the newer, smaller "gogo" funds ?were largely responsible for the 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...
...Angeles, other former patients of Charnley and his disciples demonstrated their agility. A woman of 65, who had replacements for both hips, walked with neither pain nor limp. A former R.A.F. pilot, 46, handicapped for more than 20 years by a World War II injury, did a little "gogo" dance...
...mere word from the Master's lips-into a dancing girl trying to interest (chuckle) Lawrence of Arabia. And another suddenly finds herself running down the aisle screaming. "All right, girls. Get those knockers up! Get them up now!" And a group of girls becomes The African GoGo Dancers, gyrating out of control on stage. Arlene thinks this is a little bit male chauvinist, and she's in the middle of telling me so when her turn comes...
Adds Mr. Nagasaka: "We dress the Western way, we eat Western foods, we work in Western milieus, and we even dance gogo. The trend toward Westernization has at long last begun making us sleep the Western...
...vacuous, as interchangeable; their dialogue has the same tentative, despairing quality. ("We are happy," one Mary says. "We are really and truly happy. Aren't we?" Are we really pretending?" Silence. "We are really and truly happy.") But though the Marys in Daisies share with Didi and Gogo a fundamental lack of human resonance, Chytilova's purpose has little in common with Beckett's lofty pursuit of silence. Rather Daisies is a meditation on the personal and social consequences of conspicuous consumption. Consumption is here equated with destruction (a fundamentally schizoid position--unable to deal with the world, the schizoid...