Word: farina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NAMES. Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Geoff Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, John Sebastian, all spanning a decade. Von Schmidt sees an enduring musical "scene," based on the fact that people wanted to hear this music. Today that scene doesn't exist, and while von Schmidt wants badly to believe that the listeners are out there, he acknowledges popular decline of the folk movement, and the powerful appeal of electronic music...
...Heartland boys whipped off to Hollywood and exposed, poor things, to the temptation of Big Bucks. There is a splendidly absurd contract-signing orgy, involving some expensive and schizophrenic kidding of the rock world's overdose of money, and soon Frampton has forgotten all about Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina), the sappily beautiful girl back home. "A difficult one-week rise from obscurity to stardom," as one of the film's captions puts it, follows...
ITALY: CARS AND KITCHEN SCALES. The professional automotive designer probably commands 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...