Word: siren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade as an incentive for restrained political conduct will require much closer cooperation among the Western allies than has yet been forged. "Uniformity is not required," the commission notes, but "differences should not be allowed to grow to a point where the Soviet leaders will conclude that siren songs of peace, or conversely, pressures and threats, can succeed in splitting the allies...
...casting is the choice of La Fosse, 21, in Prodigal Son, a role closely associated with Edward Villella and later Baryshnikov. Both men rage explosively through the ballet. La Fosse is boyish, vulnerable-and completely convincing. Last week at the Met, La Fosse and Cynthia Gregory, as the deadly Siren, gave a boldly sexual and riveting performance...
...thought Mrs. Weber. "They know when we go and when we come home." She quit work and would not even go shopping unless Al was home. He gave up his annual hunting trips. They put deadbolt locks on all the outside doors, wired a back-room window with a siren, and even bought a third car to park as a decoy in the driveway if they could not avoid being gone at the same time...
...Cain saw it, woman was the temptress, and Cora was a wailing siren -Circe in a highway diner. Jessica Lange's Cora is trapped, no less than Nick and Frank, by the grim imperatives of the Depression and her search for the deepest sense of identity through sex. The actress's presence and gestural eloquence provided Rafelson with this point of focus: Cora knows who she is and what men will do to possess her. A fraternity of appraising eyes follows her on the streets, in court, at the diner. One managing, sad-faced, respectably poor-emerges from...
Peter Dale captures his new life in a line: "There's a lot less stress here: a lot less worrying about problems--You don't have to stay awake at night listening for every siren that goes...