Word: sirenic
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...forces swept in. A public execution of six black-marketeers, scapegoats of the collapsing economy, was held at the railroad station. To cover it, I had to accompany the victims in the police paddy wagon as it careened through the tangle of traffic on Nanking Road, the siren wailing and the doomed men screaming for mercy. At the station the victims were dumped into the street and then shot through the head, one by one, pointblank...
...history for the promoters of this brand of politics, and the Soviety offspring, the nations in what was once known as the Communist Bloc, are consequently enemies of the first magnitude. Vigilant criticism of this is necessary least naive Westerners with a progressive bent be seduced by the Communist siren...
Then Fellini's attention turns again, and he makes a feeble attempt at wartime documentary. The cater-wauling crowd scuttles at the sound of an air-raid siren, while the camera cuts to a panicked woman running down a deserted Roman street as shells explode in the distance. But every time Fellini comes close to confronting political reality, he shies away and returns with relief to the philandering life of Rome. He is content with an imaginative evocation of the sordidness of fascist Italy, but anything like explanation or analysis is far removed from this documentary...
...voice sounds like an air-raid siren with adenoids. The face, a passably good copy of a pickle, is caught between a snarl and a smile, the snarl usually winning out. "You are not talking with just anyone's fool," she snorts indignantly. "I am a high school graduate." Who could doubt that Ernestine, the world's most famous telephone operator, has her diploma-or that Lily Tomlin, her creator, is the funniest, most inventive comedienne to come along since Elaine...
...that no more resources could be invested in producing them. Corporations would have a hard time expanding; for every one that did expand, another company would have to contract. Could freedom of speech survive? Demagogues would surely promise comfort to the poor if only growth could be resumed; that siren song would have to be silenced...