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Word: sirening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...Cummings, Tulips & Chimneys. Norman Douglas, The Siren Land, South

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CONNOLLY'S HUNDRED | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...would seem, is that ventures into venery, sadism and furious action have set an eyebrow-raising new standard for family entertainment. Kids adore the lethal, shiny toy collection. Dads happily ogle a prepotent heman, king of a computerized wonderland in which every foe can be swiftly vanquished, every voluptuous siren bedded. And women seem quite susceptible to the fantasy of being vicariously mauled by a master of the art, perhaps after flooring him with a karate wrist chop. Slapdash, comic-strip plots, more violent than suspenseful, are made into a joke that viewers are invited to share while soaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spies Who Came into the Fold | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

CACTUS FLOWER. This French transplant, nurtured by Director Abe Burrows, thrives on Gallic sex humor and farcical romance. Lauren Bacall as a spinster turned siren is as stingingly funny as she is decorative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 25, 1966 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...Lasky gave Flaherty $250,000 to make a similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visions in an Ice-Blue Eye | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...Havana, but the Commies screwed it up). Oh yeah, Nathan's got a stripper he's engaged to for fourteen years, named Adelaide, she's the best thing in the show. She knows how to move. And she's got a great voice. Kind of like a cop siren with a cold...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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