Word: delilah
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...Delilah did not cut Samson's hair...
...conniving femmes fat ales, Mata Hari and Delilah pale by comparison to female fireflies of the genus Photuris. Like other fireflies, these nocturnal, winged beetles send out short, rhythmic flashes of light as part of a special signal system that attracts males of the same species. The female Photuris practices a deadly variation of this ritual. It modifies its signal to mimic the flash pattern of different species of fireflies and thus lures unsuspecting males. Once they are in reach, the female devours them...
...many ways An American Family is a soap opera. The father, William Loud, 50, is a handsome, successful businessman in flossy Santa Barbara, Calif. The mother, Pat, 45, is equally handsome, with a touch of sophistication her husband lacks. Their five children-Lance, 20; Kevin, 18; Grant, 17; Delilah, 16; and Michele, 14-are bright, good-looking and almost unanimously articulate...
...Gilbert, the doctrinaire, disciplined party comrade Olga. They work very well as decorative comic factors in the play-its Nora Charles and its Ninotchka. And, in Hugo's great moments of choice, the two women become the primal forces between which Hugo must choose. Jessica is now Milton's Delilah, just as Olga is the hard-nosed Lady in Comus. Dirty Hands is a relentless moral treatise and a superficial "plot...
...Beacon Street Union is refreshingly rare: it recognizes the existence of twin stereo speakers and utilizes them to separate its music into two compatible components. In the bittersweet My Love Is, soft cymbal brushings flick back and forth between the speakers to tickle the listener's ears. Beautiful Delilah starts with vocals out of the left speaker, then switches to the right, while rhythm and piano ricochet right and left; Sportin' Life, featuring a slow, dusky guitar, is a bluesy sound that moves soulfully from left to right and back again...