Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body, Isabelle Adjani looks like a Barbie doll grown up and gone bad. At 28, she has become the divine masochist of the French cinema, playing Truffaut's Adele H., or a woman who gives birth to a monster in Possession. This time Adjani has turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean Becker 2 hr. 10 min. to exorcise...
...GREEN MONTHS of spring are the time of year when Harvard's chorus of fundraisers starts singing siren songs to a newborn generation of prospective donors--the senior class For the past several weeks, as in previous years, a small army of senior "gift agents" with marching orders from the University's development office has undertaken a thorough canvassing of their classmates for donations towards a gift to Harvard from the Class...
...Miami Beach physician enjoyed a lucrative practice, a waterfront home on a private island in Biscayne Bay and a prized art collection. There was an added fillip: cocaine. Many of his rich patients used and sold the drug, and Trop was sucked in by its siren charms...
Author-Screenwriter William Goldman, 51, has been around long enough to remember the bad old image of his trade. He began his career in 1957 as a writer of respectable fiction, far from the siren song of show business, and has published twelve novels. But he also labored successfully in Hollywood (eleven credits) during the period when movies became films, directors auteurs and screenplays the subjects of scholarly monographs. In discussing his own work for the people "Out There," he neither cringes nor crows: "In terms of authority, screenwriters rank somewhere between the man who guards the studio gate...
...controlled the puck in the corner of the rink nearest to the Crimson crowd until the siren sounded and a horde of jubilant teammates mobbed him, so that the fans had a close-up view of the first Harvard hockey team to celebrate an ECAC title in 12 years...