Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Joan Bennett, 55, movie siren of the 1930s (Careless Lady): Walter Wanger, 71, veteran film producer (Joan of Arc, Cleopatra), who in 1952 served 15 weeks in jail for jealously shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Siren Song. George Papandreou, as leader of the largest party in Parliament, sat through the sessions on Constantine's left hand. He was openly contemptuous of the palace's "lures of power," which, with his orator's gift for a telling phrase, he had likened publicly to those of Circe, Ulysses' sorceress, whose lures transformed men into pigs. "Do you think," he asked Constantine, rhetorically, "that if you can get 115 Deputies in Parliament [i.e., a bare majority], you can face the people and me?" His own siren song consisted of the familiar demand for national...
...shooting Hinds, the first mate. I ran upstairs to tell the captain. He was dead, lying crosswise on the bridge." Elwin ran to hide in the chain locker. After two hours, he heard the engine stop. Then nothing-for 16 hours-until he heard the patrol boat's siren wail...
...generations the BBC, known affectionately to all Britons as "Auntie BBC," has been - first via radio, then television - the sonorous, serious, slightly stuffy voice of England's Oxbridge-accented Establishment. Until, that is, the siren of commercial television sauntered on the scene nine years ago swinging her pocketbook in the guise of the ITV network and luring away the BBC's viewers. Auntie retaliated by taking on in 1960 a new leading man to spruce up her image: Hugh Carleton Greene, now 54, brother of Novelist Graham Greene, as director general. Greene brought in fresh-and often brash...
...sidewalks outside the Met for three days to snap up 448 standing-room tickets. The buildup, and one of the most glittering audiences in memory, demanded a triumphal evening. Callas, singing the role of Tosca, made it so, not with her voice, but with every last ounce of her siren skill...