Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meets Siren, but winds up happily in wifey's arms; and the tough guy, it turns out is all custard filling underneath. Perhaps one reason why Lunatics and Lovers keeps straining so hard to seem amusingly sinful is that all the time it is really playing safe...
...these siren songs, Walt lent half an ear. Encouraged by Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, he made the biggest boner of his career: Fantasia. Its basic idea, to illustrate music with pictures, was depressing enough to anyone who loves either form of art. Its declared intention to bring "culture" to the "masses" turned out to be silly: it had nothing to do with culture, and the "masses" would have nothing to do with it. Fantasia has never earned back what it cost. Worse yet, though Walt learned a lesson from Fantasia, he learned the wrong one: mistaking for culture what...
...girl really was young and beautiful (played by Italy's Sophia Loren, with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French into minstrel-show English. With all these modern wonders, the Metropolitan Opera dared to compete, by staging a revival of Umberto Giordano's opera...
...would listen, the Russians have kept up another siren song: there could be lots of trade if only the Americans did not insist on an embargo. Britons, Germans, Japanese, French and Danes listened wistfully...
Divorced. By Marilyn Monroe, 28, No. 1 U.S. movie siren: Joseph Paul DiMaggio, 40, onetime Yankee slugger; after nine months of marriage; in Hollywood. In an underplayed 15-minute courtroom scene, black-suited Cinemactress Monroe stepped forward on cue from famed Lawyer Jerry Giesler, tearfully announced that instead of the "love, warmth and affection" she had expected from Joe, she had found only "coolness and indifference...