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Most of rock groupie sub-culture is a direct descendant of the "band-chicks" that lived around jazz groups in the forties. The rock lexicon is almost completely derivative of jazz groupies. Plaster-casting comes from a saying out of the "be-bop" era, "Plate you now, cast you later." The word "rig" seems to have originated in the lyrics of the Delta blues singers...
...everything was underground, when groupies were sexual daredevils, sleeping with different bands in the Catskills or New York. With rock, things changed. Groupies acquired their first public notoriety in the Rolling Stone of several years ago that carried a four-article spread on groupies, all-woman bands, and the plaster-casters. With something like pride, Stone gave biographies of the most "successful" groupies, detailing their life with the "prettiest boys," the freakiest clothes and the best dope...
...film's highlight is an interview with Diana, the chief plaster-caster, and her protege, Cynthia. While she calmly kinks her hair she describes the mixing formulas, techniques of excitation, and the different results she has obtained with the different stars. The scene cuts to a bedroom where she is trying to convince members of Spooky Tooth that they should have their casts made. Hesitating for a moment, they finally agree. During the plaster casting, the camera pans away to a cabinet with the rows of completed casts. Soon, from the sounds of casting activity off-camera, someone yelps...
Instant Slums? In several cities, said the committee study, the staff found supposedly renovated Section 235 houses with "faulty plumbing, leaky basements and roofs, cracked plaster, faulty wiring and heating, and rotting wood in floors, stairs or ceilings." As for new homes built under the program, the staff labeled two projects, in Elmwood, Mo., and Everett, Wash., as "instant slums" because of shoddy construction, flimsy materials or fire hazards. In Seattle, some Section 235 buyers-all on welfare-are suing FHA for damages because, soon after they moved in, the city declared their homes "substandard" and ordered them repaired...
...remainder of the apartment is no better. Large gaping holes pattern the plaster, and broken windows are boarded over with plywood. The Whites have four single beds for the nine of them, and there are four chairs and a small table in the entrance way, where the family eats in two shifts. The kitchen is dim and terribly hot. Mary keeps the stove burning all day because the central heating rarely works. "The gas is leaking just a little," she says, "and the doctor says we've got to keep the stove off. But if we did there wouldn...