Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone once asked the artist Giacometti if, were his studio on fire, he would first save his famous sculpture of a dog or a dog he kept as a pet. Giacometti said he would save the dog. Apparently, the majority of the Harvard Faculty would, in the same situation prefer to save the sculpture. For what the Faculty's failure to go out on strike with the students essentially means is that they would rather save University routine than join students in a full-time struggle against the systematic murder of Asians, black militants, and college students by our government...
...Never a Pet. Appointment in Samarra, recounting the last days of Julian English, a doomed young member of the upper middle class, was a great success. O'Hara's career was truly launched. Novels like Butterfield 8, A Rage to Live and From the Terrace flowed from his restless typewriter. In 1940 he wrote the libretto for Pal Joey, an instant Broadway sensation. Though he got the National Book Award, he never won either the Pulitzer or the Nobel Prize, to his unconcealed annoyance. "It used to hurt, never winning an award, but I've never been...
...Finally, she left the country to try a singing career in Paris. The British promptly forgot all about her. She soon met Claude Wolff, a press-agent for a French record company, and for the past eight years they have succeeded in maintaining a flourishing husband-manager-star relationship. Pet knew that she was subject to intermittent depressions, was unable to cope with booking arrangements, and that "sometimes I would need to be treated as a child." Claude knew just how and when to do it. But in the process, says Pet, "he didn't do a Vadim...
...which she has become accustomed. She is fed up with period movies like Chips ("I have nothing to do with 1924, really") and other musicals. Not that either picture was such a box-office smash that Hollywood is pressing her to do another of that genre. Right now, Pet says, she is looking for "a small contemporary film," based perhaps on the Paris revolution of 1968. But Petula, like Julie Andrews, may have trouble in eluding her old image. "At her worst," as one London critic observes, "she emits enough chintzy cheerfulness to upholster a three-piece suite...
Despite, or because of her upbringing, Pet can barely abide show-biz socializing, and the Wolffs and their two daughters have relocated their home from Paris to a summer farmhouse near Antibes and a $250,000 chateau outside Geneva. "We moved," she explains, "to get away from the 'fun' people." For Pet Clark, the Downtown, rock-around-the-clock days are done...