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...Lovin' Spoonful are four shaggies in their 20s who trade in "goodtime music." The most versatile of the new groups, they mix hard rock and country, funky blues and jug-band music. Biggest Spoon is John Sebastian, who, with Zal Yanovsky, a grinning zany in a ten-gallon hat, handles the songwriting. Joe Butler works out on drums, Steve Boone on the bass, guitar and piano. "Together," says Sebastian, who is the son of Classical Harmonica Player John Sebastian, "we make up about one fairly efficient human being." There are no protests in their songs, just new and often...
...young companion, whose hack-work with a soup spoon marked him as so: "Does it matter if you plant them up-side down...
...yellow pencils. They meet after he answers her ad in a lonely-hearts column, and in this sad, hilarious, faultless little film by Italy's Antonio Pietrangeli, they begin and end in a single day the least hopeful attempt at pairing since the dish ran away with the spoon...
...warmest greeting of all was given to Zephyr Wright, the Johnson family cook for 23 years. "Oh, Zassie," said Luci, "you look so pretty. I love your dress." Much was made of Zassie's fried chicken and spoon bread, without which, apparently, the Johnsons would never have endured. Zassie, at any rate, got busses from both bride and groom. When much-divorced Supreme Court Justice William Douglas came through the line, pulling along his newest young bride for introductions, the reaction was quite different. Luci's effusive manner cooled noticeably, and she offered only a perfunctory handshake...
...pastoral setting. Unlike so many of his colleagues, though, Bowman was determined to turn his dream into reality. In 1960, he went into debt to buy an abandoned 67-acre farm in Washington County, Va., an area known for antique shops and country hams, hurley tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later, at the age of 39, he decided "it was now or never." He quit U.P.I., moved his wife and three children to the farm, and took a job writing editorials for the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier, the nearest daily paper...