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...Vadim. Pet's own life has been filled with more familial traumas. She had a mother who taught her to sing and a stage father who pushed her onto a BBC wartime show called It's All Yours, followed by her own Pet's Parlour. Dad eventually parlayed all that into an almost endless J. Arthur Rank contract. At Rank, she played in 25 films including a kind of female Andy Hardy role in the Huggett series. Thanks to a restraining bra and taut parental control of her public image (no dates or off-the-shoulder dresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And the Pet Goes On | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however, to be a critical of the Right as of the Left. He has no truck for those parlour libertarians who finds SDS rhetoric "ominously ambiguous" and General Hershey's announcements merely "impolitic" or "stupid." His confidence in words and the possibility of making sense may appear out of place in these McLuhanesque times, but for a man who insists that reality begins and ends with the Word, there...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Alan Heimert: The 'Idea' at Eliot House | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however, to be as critical of the Right as of the Left. He has no truck for those parlour libertarians who find SDS rhetoric "ominously ambiguous" and General Hershey's announcements merely "impolitic" or "stupid." His confidence in words and the possibility of making sense may appear out of place in these McLuhanesque times, but for a man who insists that reality begins and ends with the Word, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alan E. Heimert | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...American goods. Carved ebonys of any style. African wallet made of alligator or leopard skin or any animal skin, Ladies and gents hand bag made of colourful animal skin, Native cloth which can be used for coat or any other dress weared by Original "YORUBAS," carved calabashes for dressing parlour or museum or dancing hall, Sandals and Slippers made of animal skin or variegated colours. African polished marriage combs for beautiful dress in houses at the time of marriage etc. Exchange to American goods like Pilgrim secret wallets, billfolds, belts, hand-paint Original ties, jackets, candys and gums, cameras, trousers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want a Calabash? | 1/17/1952 | See Source »

...little rusty, but the lined half-smiling face is still assured and debonair. The romantic star of People Moco over a decade ago still has the old technique. And he demonstrates it in the best Gabin manner as he adroitly maneuvers young leading lady Blanchette Brunoy into his parlour and onto his couch. However, Miss Brunoy's acting ability does not rate her a place on the same couch with Gabin. She is attractive in face and figure, but her facial expression is limited to three looks--sex, innocence, and disdain. Unfortunately, they are not enough...

Author: By Michael Maccosy, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1952 | See Source »

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