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...film Goldfinger, James Bond chased villains and beautiful women in an Aston Martin DB5 sports car equipped with such extras as an ejection seat, machine guns and a bulletproof windshield. Now Aston Martin Lagonda is introducing a vehicle that an older Bond could love. In Birmingham, England, last week, the firm unveiled its Tickford Lagonda limousine, an auto that will have a thrill-seeking top speed of 140 m.p.h. With a base price of $120,000 that can rise to more than $150,000 when video, stereo and picnic-table options are added, the car will...
...joint venture of Aston Martin Lagonda and Tickford, a design-and-engineering company, the limo is a stretch version of a Tickford Lagonda sedan. Aston Martin Spokesman Grahame Butterworth says the new car is for the "person who wants the most expensive, absolute ultimate status symbol." The company seems to believe that such buyers will be rare. It plans to manufacture just twelve Tickford Lagonda cars a year. Last week the firm had several serious inquiries and one solid buyer...
...Caretaker's plot centers around a bum named May Davies (Faith Justice) who is taken in by one of the sisters. Aston (Sandra Shipley) who collects junk and seems slightly moronic. The other sister, Mick (Pamela Dritt Knickrehm) is a highly volatile punkish woman who is dissatisfied with her sister's ineffectuality in making only one of their large house habitable. The bum works her way into the sisters' lives and gradually becomes more selfish and demanding of the sisters as time passes. Since nothing really happens in the women's lives even after the bum moves in, the play...
...three quarter hours) contributes to the audience's frustration as the play's loosely linked series of scenes progress very slowly. All three women live in their own unsuccessful worlds which cannot sustain any interaction when forced to allow others to enter. After she takes in the bum, Aston's altruism causes her to suffer painful flashbacks of her past in a mental hospital and to recall her inability to deal with people. Shipley creates a very neurotic and tense Aston who has tremendous difficulty finishing thoughts. Her taut facial expressions constantly match her nervous and fidgety personality. Shipley...
...Garessio in northwest Italy, Giugiaro was hired by Fiat's design department when he was 17. At 21, he was lured away by the famed car designer Nuccio Bertone. In six years with Bertone, he created 20 cars, from economy-model Simcas and Mazdas to expensive Ferraris and Aston Martins. At 27, Giugiaro graduated to Ghia, where he designed renowned sports cars for Maserati and De Tomaso. At 30, he opened his own firm. Married, the father of two children, Giugiaro resides in a rambling ranch-style house outside Turin that he planned with an architect. The interior...