Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homosexual who could buy any boy he chose (and did so) Pasolini exploited the working classes. The night of his death, he picked up a boy to satisfy his sexual needs, took the kid out for dinner (Pasolini didn't eat) and then drove off with him in his Alfa 2000 to a private place. Ironically, Pasolini himself helped to perpetrate the prostitution he deplored...
Died. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, maverick Italian film director, poet and novelist; after being bludgeoned with a fence post and run over by his own Alfa Romeo driven by a 17-year-old boy whom he had picked up; in Ostia, Italy. A Marxist with a nostalgia for Catholicism, and a known homosexual, Pasolini managed to rouse the wrath of Italy's Catholics and Communists alike. In 1961 his first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with...
...there's an exhibit at the Museum of Transportation in Lars Anderson Park, Brookline, of classic sportscars from 1928-1939. Featured is the Alfa-Romeo, along with Bugatti, BMW, Bentley and others...
...higher status in Italy than anywhere else. The undisputed heir to the tradition of the late Pinin Farina and Nuncio Bertone is a prodigious creator named Giorgietto Giugiaro, the son of a church gilder. Giugiaro went to work for Fiat at 17 and designed his first complete car, the Alfa 2000 Sprint, when he was only 21. At 36, the head of his own firm, Ital Design, Giugiaro has more than a score of auto designs in his gallery of achievements, including the new generation of post-bug Volkswagens, Ghia's classic De Tomaso Mangusta, the Fiat 850 Spider...
...detail. If he draws a 1955 Peugeot 403 or the old Geneva Airport, everything is exactly right. Occasionally he breaks out into a full-page picture recreating such things as a complete Persian miniature version of a 15th century battle with the Turks, or the havoc wreaked by an Alfa Romeo slaloming through a European square on market...