Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American teen-ager's scramble from the parental nest." Of course, at an increasingly matronly 37, she will have to go beyond such material as Downtown and I Know a Place. These days she is trying to emulate her idol, Piaf. "She didn't just sing," recalls Petula. "She pulled her insides out. She got involved about people going crazy, about death...
...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...
...guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently invited Comedian Red Skelton to inaugurate a series of "Evenings at the White House." The Wyeth...
Looking toward Harvard-Radcliffe merger. Adams said, "There will then be a definite need for a mixed choral group." The glee club is currently all-male while the choral society is exclusively female. While the two groups sometimes sing together. "I don't want to eliminate the opportunities for men and women to sing distinctive music," he added...
...beginning to sing...