Word: pets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...herself, Petula Clark is an international identity crisis. In a 28-year career that began when she was nine, Pet Clark has been Britain's Shirley Temple, a French yé-yé singer and songwriter more popular at one point than Edith Piaf, and Hollywood's heiress to the fallen halo of Julie Andrews. Along the way, Petula has sold 25 million records in five languages...
Though her first tongue was English (She was born in a London suburb), Pet was discovered last in the U.S. Downtown preceded her in 1964, but Americans did not get accustomed to the face behind that big, hard-edged voice until she became the shill trilling, "And the beat goes on . . ." in Plymouth TV commercials two years ago. Next came films (Finian's Rainbow and Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and regular television. This week Pet stars in her third TV special, on NBC's Kraft Music Hall; in 1971, though it is yet unannounced, she will headline a weekly...
Sorry, Mr. Agnew. That sort of show business record makes Pet sound like the frenetic creation of some monstrous manager, or Jackie Susann. But those who have seen her on the concert or club stage-her natural habitat -realize that she is a diffident, dignified woman with a whimsical intelligence. She comes on with almost no preliminary patter, precious little makeup and a gown and a hairdo she does herself. There is none of the oppressive overproduction that is now the vogue in cabaret acts-the choreography down to the last twitch, the scripting of every gasp, the obtrusive gags...
...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...
CROZIER'S belief that "we must change the system from the top" conflicts with the pet theories of most of his French colleagues who being much further left, glorify the role of worker and trade unions. But he does not "take very seriously" his image as the American sociologist in France. "I don't have any kind of complex." Instead Crozier muses on the ambivalence of his French colleagues-they bemoan American sociology as "so awful, horrible, and the chaining of the human race" precisely because "they believe it's so good...