Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another this fall. Each, in a different way, reveals the Truffaut genre: Stolen Kisses, which will soon open in the U.S., shows the rebel as before-but grown to maturity. Again, he is played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, the juvenile star of The 400 Blows. The new project, The Siren of Mississippi, is to be yet another salute to American cinema, a story of mail-order romance starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo...
...squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...
Recently, officials caught a South Vietnamese army unit that was actually running hot goods to Saigon's black market in an ambulance, complete with blaring siren. Even the chief of staff of South Viet Nam's 5th Division was caught using government trucks to transport U.S. rice to areas where it could be sold to the Viet Cong...
Miss Brodie assures her girls that they are the "crème de la crème" and she tries to turn them into a vicarious wilderness of mirrors refracting all facets of her thwarted ego. One student is to become an intellectual, another to cultivate siren calls of the flesh, still another to be an actress. In actuality, one girl-inspired by Miss Brodie to go help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss...
...radio audience: "I loved the April Fools' gag a fellow pulled in Washington. He walked into the White House and said he was from Missouri, and before he could holler 'April fool!' he was a Cabinet member." By that time, Hope and his sidekicks-popeyed, siren-throated Jerry Colonna, Brenda and Cobina, and Bandleader Skinnay Ennis-had turned Tuesday into Bob Hope night in the U.S. Every Wednesday morning in those days, the Dow-Jones stock ticker used to carry the best of his jokes. During his ten years as toothpaste salesman, he claims, Pepsodent leapfrogged from...