Word: sirene
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...affairs, including one with Mme. Gautreau. He rises before one's eyes in a flaring crimson robe with a velvet curtain behind him, one hand on his breast, looking like some 16th-arrondissement Don Giovanni protesting the sincerity of his intentions. The pairing of the New Orleans siren and her reputed lover set off a frenzy of gossip, and Sargent, more than a little unnerved, presently decamped to London...
...problem. For years, astronomers had noted that light from the nebulae was redder than it should be. The most likely cause of this so-called red shifting was motion away from the observer. (The same sort of thing happens with sound: a police car's siren seems to drop in pitch abruptly as the car races past a listener...
...only fools are not afraid when the warning siren sounds. Families huddle in houses, unable to close their eyes as they await the concussive smack of a bomb. Unlike Operation Desert Storm, when the country was pounded mercilessly for 38 days, Operation Desert Fox has come in tense fits and starts through the long nights...
...fully awakened by the mournful and menacing wail of the howlers--large red monkeys that make a new-day announcement that they are in charge of all the forest's primates. The collective howl begins like a low siren in a fire station, rises to swallow the sky, then ebbs again. It makes you feel alone in the world, like the first human being ever to hear...
Monica Lewinsky is ready to tell all, says the New York Post. The paper reports that the "Sexgate siren" has signed a seven-figure deal with St. Martin's Press to publish a book in February. Her collaborator: Andrew Morton, best-selling royal biographer, whose Princess Diana book was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic (and is now being turned into a movie by "The Lion in Winter" producer Martin Poll). In addition, says the Post, it looks as though Monica will be sitting down to talk with ABC's Barbara Walters sometime soon...