Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While this country may once have been vulnerable to the siren song of political sophistry, today's citizens who bother to think about politics at all are a toughened, cynical lot who can resist such blandishments. The political content of art has always been secondary to its crowd-pleasing appeal; the same audiences who saw Rambo two years ago the Top Gun last year are now flocking to Platoon, simply because they like a good heavy-calibre war flick...
...were not talking to the Soviet press last week, the emigres tended to cite personal reasons for their return. Many felt isolated from American society and frustrated by their rudimentary command of English. Some Soviet professionals found themselves driving cabs or performing menial tasks. Others were attracted home by siren calls from Moscow. "There will be a big change in status for some," said Alex Goldfarb, a Soviet-born assistant professor of microbiology at Columbia University, whose father recently joined him in New York City. The younger Goldfarb said that returning emigres would be able to buy elite apartments with...
...twelve years between the Wall Street Crash and Pearl Harbor, the American imagination seems to have oscillated between two images, the streamline and the breadline -- the former promising relief from the latter. And in the maxim of the 1939 New York World's Fair, "See tomorrow -- now!," lay the siren syllables of undeferred gratification that would abolish the constraints of Puritan America while preserving its millenarian fantasies...
...earlier roles -- as the scheming siren in Body Heat, the prostitute drunk on erotic danger in Crimes of Passion, the chic hit woman of Prizzi's Honor -- Turner has dazzlingly portrayed women with elusive identities. Was a Turner character foxy or a weasel, or tantalizing bits of both? Peggy Sue, while tamping down the actress's smoldering Wasp sexuality, challenges her to play two characters and moods at once. She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling. Turner, 32, cannot pass for a teenager, but that...
...goat sacrifice superstitious. He subsequently received a note in Hindi ordering him to perform the sacrifice or perish within the week, acquiesced, and then went mad. "He looked in the mirror one day," the novelist's mother recalled, "and couldn't see himself. And he began to scream." A siren of Britain's Roaring Twenties, Heiress Nancy Cunard appears in at least seven books under various guises. She "seems to have had lovers almost as often as the rest of us have lunch," says Amos, "and such was their variety that one wonders if she even paused to glance...