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...many fashionplates have unkinder words for it. "Extraordinarily ugly," said Mrs. William F. Buckley. Opined a Roman beauty: "I hate it, I'm disgusted by it, I think it's horrible" -adding sagely, "If it becomes real fashion I'll adapt myself to it." Said Mrs. Gianni Agnelli: "I only hope the designers put some slits in it." As for Charlotte Ford Niarchos: "I'll wait to see what Paris...
Such is the slight story of Tropici, a film about modern-day Brazil made by an Italian, Gianni Amico, for Italian television. But the content of Tropici is primarily political: the effects of foreign exploitation on a Third World nation. Amico has correctly realized that traditional narrative, no matter how portentous, is inadequate for describing a social reality that lies beneath surface story lines. Therefore he has interweaved his narrative with a conventional documentary which attempts to set Miguel's story in context, to explain in party why Miguel is unskilled, why a country so rich in resources...
Eugene Paul Getty, son of Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, also lives in Marrakesh. Regular Moroccan visitors include Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Baron Guy de Rothschild, Barbara Hutton, Yul Brynner, David! Rockefeller, Lee Radziwill, Fiat Boss Gianni Agnelli and Author Truman Capote, who advises anyone contemplating a Moroccan trip to "have yourself vaccinated against typhoid, liquidate your bank account, and say goodbye to your friends. God knows when you will see them again...
...makers, Fiat has adopted Detroit's successful technique of expanding its model lines as its market grows more affluent. In 1964, Fiat introduced its 850, a mightier mouse but cheap enough (at $1,280) to sell well in that year's recession. Since then, largely at Gianni's urging, Fiat has followed Il Boom with medium-priced cars and then luxury models. In all, the company now builds 20 models, including its sporty 124, which is becoming Europe's Mustang, and the Fiat-Dino, a 120-m.p.h. job that costs $6,000. Unlike the earlier
...conservative Turin, where the old guard regards the Agnellis as arrivistes-they have had big money for only 70 years-Gianni does little entertaining. An evening at the Agnellis' 30-room palazzo in the center of town often means a movie in a screening room where 30 or 40 films are shown a year. Agnelli is casual about art, but he does "buy when I am tempted." His impressive display of sculpture, Gobelin tapestries, Picassos, Klees and Renoirs shows that he is tempted rather often. In August and September, the Agnellis move to Villar Perosa, 30 miles west...