Word: lorelei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marilyn may represent some unique alchemy of sex, talent and Technicolor. She is pure movies. I recently watched her as Lorelei Lee in her musical smash, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The film is an ideal mating of star and role, as Marilyn deliriously embodies author Anita Loos' seminal, shame-free gold digger. Lorelei's honey-voiced, pixilated charm may be best expressed by her line, regarding one of her sugar daddies, "Sometimes Mr. Esmond finds it very difficult to say no to me." Whenever Lorelei appears onscreen, undulating in second-skin, cleavage-proud knitwear or the sheerest orange chiffon, all heads...
Sometimes these two voices sound too alike,Murray and Zuckerman are both old, wifeless andliterate. Shakespeare is quoted. Ira's boringtirades are related in the sweet, slow molassesconversation of these two old men. The style islike the slow tourist boats that puff down theRhine, playing the uncanny Lorelei, the ballad oflove lost on the Rhine's violent rocks. It is thesort of voice Roth always does well, but it losesits punch when scattered across two differentpersonalities...
Although graduation hurt Yale's defense, it still has experienced juniors Lorelei Wall, the Ivy Rookie of the Year in 1996, and Danica Liberman...
...Luis, a 700-mile-wide tempest with winds as fast as 175 miles per hour, is expected to hit Puerto Rico late today or early Wednesday. For days, frightened residents and tourists have been crowding airports and air charter companies. "Everybody here is kind of frantic," reports TIME's Lorelei Albanese in San Juan. "Bottled water is almost completely sold out, and batteries and other supplies are being snapped up as soon as they are put on the shelves." Albanese says the ferocity of the storm has reminded many Puerto Ricans of Hurricane Hugo, which caused more than $1 billion...
...seems like it's going to take too much time, and it's effort," says Lorelei J. Grunwaldt '97. "It's weird...it seems like it's so far away, but it's minutes away...