Word: quant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SNOW WHITE MARTHA GRAHAM LOUIS ARMSTRONG MILES DAVIS SEAGRAM BUILDING GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO THE GREAT GATSBY T.S. ELIOT MARY QUANT BLUE POLES: NUMBER 11, 1952 CITIZEN KANE PABLO PICASSO COCO CHANEL RALPH ELLISON LUCILLE BALL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ IGOR STRAVINSKY SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? OKLAHOMA! WAITING FOR GODOT...
...Waddell to define her style and without the flutter of an eyelash she unrolls a crisp definition: a combination of Mary Quant, Monrian, '60s mod and Versace. She likes to use polyesters because they wash easily and vinyls even though they don't. She looks for combinations of colors and textures on the right side of flashy-bright and spectacular without being glitzy. She can be quite experimental in her choice of materials, constructing pants and jackets from yellow caution tape or police line. Despite the repetitive warnings of these pieces, Waddell's clothing crosses artistic boundaries, erring even into...
...MARY QUANT With bright, geometric designs, hemlines pioneeringly economical in length and a silhouette breezily loose, Londoner Quant set off the Youthquake look...
...runs Equity-Income II, a fund with over $14 billion. Between 1992 and 1994, Posner outperformed the S&P 500 by wide margins, but in 1995 his results were lower by about 11 percentage points; this year he's just about even with the market. He calls himself "a quant from the University of Chicago," but he insists that the daily contact with the other managers and analysts is what really helps his thinking. He cautions new analysts against relying too much on technology. "I tell them, 'Don't let it become a crutch to eliminate face-to-face contact...
...think it is valuable for some more than others," says first-year Brian E. Krim. "Quant is great for those with no quantitative skills, but I know it's not valuable to a good portion of the class...