Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LOLITA HAS BECOME a sort of under-aged siren for the creators of stage and screen, luring writers and directors to crash on the undramatic shoals of Nabokov's first-person prose. First Stanley Kubrick in his 1962 movie, then some forgotten adapter in an early '70s musical, and now Edward Albee in this vulgarized comic drama have attempted to drag Nabokov's characters from the sheltering artistry of his novel into the coldly objective glare of the theater. It's beginning to become unpleasantly clear that Lolita's appeal to directors and audiences alike lies not in its author...
...week, though, that the Administration will not advocate any further reduction in the capital gains tax on long-term investment profits or any new tax breaks for interest and dividend income. Consumers, however, are likely to find the benefits of the tax cut to be as elusive as the siren of the Lorelei. Higher Social Security levies that went into effect on Jan. 1, and inflation, which automatically pushes people into higher tax brackets, have already wiped out most of the real gains that people might have got from a general tax reduction...
...year, and perhaps 120 top models earn up to $150,000. But don't go away; there is also a cadre of about 60 top, top models who may earn $350,000 annually. Chief among these are such radiant blonds as Kim Alexis and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Swimsuit Siren Christie Brinkley. It is these top-tops who may be lucky enough to sign the exclusive cosmetic contracts and break into the really big money. The ultimate stars of the contract girls, in turn, will come to be referred to with awe as "great, great" models ? Tiegs and Hutton, for example...
...perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles away. Fighting crime? The Advanced Robotics Corp. is advertising a mechanical sentinel that can speed to the site of any breakin, sternly ask an intruder, "What are you doing here?" and temporarily blind him with its spotlight while its siren calls for help...
...another tune to New York. It is played on a cornet isolated from one of the George Gershwin songs in Manhattan and then carried above 96th Street and out to pockets of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where, alone, it sounds less like a horn than a siren. The city's slums have also changed dramatically in the past four years, but not for the better. "Look at this," says Mrs. Wilma Burroughs, who lives in the area of now infamous Charlotte Street in the South Bronx. "It's bee four years. Four years of promises. Four years...