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...When Ital Design was retained to develop Nikon's F3 35-mm camera, Giugiaro looked beyond styling to make the most of the camera's improved technology. The motor drive attaches to the bottom of the camera, providing a low center of gravity that offsets the weight of a projecting lens. In addition, the comfortable hand grip is constructed in such a way as to permit stable one-hand operation...
Giugiaro rose to early fame with his automobile designs, notably the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT and the first post-Bug Volkswagens. His firm, Ital Design, with some 200 employees, has created such diverse products as Necchi electronic sewing machines, a Nikon camera, Nikon sunglasses, the Isuzu Piazza auto, an electric organ, ski bindings, buses, cigarette lighters and a complete set of street furniture for the city of Turin-trash cans, street signs, lights and tram stations. Constantly adding to his list of international clients, Giugiaro expects to have an exploratory meeting soon with General Motors to talk about designing...
This is the way things work at Ital Design. Giugiaro maintains a large engineering staff to solve functional and production problems as the design evolves. One example of this comprehensive approach, cited by Giugiaro, is the door of his Fiat Panda. The recessed door hinges are covered with plates on the outside. Giugiaro's hinges make it unnecessary for an assembler to work on the cramped inside of an auto-the outside hinges can be installed with ease...
...Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song...
Neither of the two parties challenged the document's authenticity; but each denied having leaked it. In Moscow, Party Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin told reporters that "your best sources would be in Rome." Ital ian Communist Party officials were equally evasive, hinting that the Kremlin might have leaked the letter to discredit Berlinguer in the eyes of hard-line party members. Panorama Journalist Carlo Rossella added to the mys tery, explaining that he had been given a translation of the letter at a surreptitious meeting in a Milan restaurant. But he refused to identify the informant...