Word: sirenic
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...gaminess and, what's worse, imprisons the show's vitality in a plaster cast. As the young love interest, Kim just trudges around in the well-known Novakuum, and Rita Hayworth, especially when she sings her big song (Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered), still sounds the siren, but where's the fire...
...Siren Left. Only 30 miles before Geelong, an Aussie Ford missed a sharp turn at 70 m.p.h., skidded through a fence and wound up with its rear wheels hanging over a small cliff. That first casualty lost the rally its only car equipped with a siren for scaring off kangaroos...
Otherwise . . . In Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...
...dream of success: to rise from his untouchable caste as TV commercial writer to possession of his own jewel-encrusted key to the executives' washroom. This glorious consummation (duly sanctified by a heavenly choir on the sound track) is realized through Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield), a squealing movie siren noted for her "oh-so-kissable lips" and her favorite boast ("All my lovers and I are just friends!"). In getting Jayne's product endorsement in the bag, Rock is nearly bagged by her, almost sandbagged by his fiancee (Betsy Drake), almost pulverized by Jayne's tree-swinging...
Even India's Prime Minister Nehru was dragged into the international to-do over the "business relationship" between Italian Film Director Roberto Rossellini and his connecting-suite neighbor in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, high-caste Siren Sonoli Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. A delegation from the family of doe-eyed Sonali, mother of two sons, called on Nehru with the obvious purpose of persuading him to rid Sonali of Rossellini, 51. They hinted that Rossellini claimed to be a pal of Nehru's. Neutralist Nehru took sides instanter. "That rascal!" cried...