Word: pert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true love was for him a casual affair. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and Noelle accordingly swears vengeance. Progressing from bedroom to bedroom, Noelle eventually becomes a famous actress or in a position to gain her revenge. By this time, Larry has married a pert American girl named Catherine and the audience has sat through another sequence of glossy romantic shots, this time in Washington. Noelle manages to hire Larry, recently out of work and desperate for a job, as the pilot of her private plane. She subjects him to one humiliation on top of another before...
...desert like some mustang of the legendary West - but it is no horse, only modern horse power gone loco. Driverless, with a diabolical will of its own, it invades a Utah town and mows down a bicycling couple, the sheriff and a passel of deputies and a pert young teacher. Among the other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple of made-for-TV movies...
Segal and Fonda are resourceful per formers. Fonda, improbably pert and stylish even while cleaning out a cash drawer, is especially winning. But both are forced to work hard to keep the laughs coming. So hard, in fact, that it al most hurts...
There were 18 women (13 Democrats and five Republicans) in the old House and 17 in the new. Two star-quality Democrats?New York's brassy Bella Abzug and Hawaii's pert Patsy Mink?gave up their seats in unsuccessful attempts to win Senate nominations. Abzug will be replaced by New York City Councilman Theodore S. Weiss, 48, who rejected suggestions that he vacate his Democratic nomination and let Abzug reclaim her old job. Mink's successor is Democrat Daniel Akaka, 51, a former aide to Hawaii's Governor George Ariyoshi...
Married. June Allyson, 53, pert, husky-voiced TV, stage and screen star (The Glenn Miller Story, Forty Carats); and David Ashrow, 55, a Ventura, Calif, dentist; both for the third time (Allyson's first husband was Actor Dick Powell); in Palm Springs, Calif...