Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which he was the only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered a corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience pogo to the music and slam into each other with the force of bumper cars. Darby doesn't dance much; he simply staggers forward, backward, attentive to some inner music, like the dying of his brain cells. Within the year, the rest of him will be dead, of overdose and ennui...
...worry, this could add $10 million to the box office") and is accorded a soundstage funeral-a stained-glass pattern projected on a cyclorama, his wife's guru reading from such sacred works as his list of credits (Chicken at the Wheel, Love on a Pogo Stick) and reports of boffo grosses for his last work. The mourners, of course, go right on making deals and trying to steal one another's lovers...
...Americans fell to a liberal, sometimes radical "new class"-academics, elitists, journalists -which, although accurate up to a point, somehow got the story wrong or told it from a vantage point of supercilious and frequently privileged hostility. "We have met the enemy and he is us," they wrote, quoting Pogo. Americans developed a moral inferiority complex of historic proportions: where once they hubristically viewed themselves as the world's best, many came to see America as the worst...
...state and local bureaucracies collect larger revenues without having to put tax increases to a vote. Every 1% increase in inflation results in a 1.5% growth in personal income tax revenues. Consumers and politicians waging war on inflation might adopt a motto of the late great comic strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy...
...Pogo riot...