Word: sirening
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...this summer I'm trying to recapture the magic. Much like an alcoholic trying to go dry, its a tough climb. The siren's song of the television still calls--sometimes I ignore it, sometimes...
...suspended, and when three young men, possibly the same three from earlier, emerge from the bar and drive away, he follows. He radios in that he is heading east on Thomas Road, planning to pull the car over. The Lincoln speeds up, and Atkinson goes to his lights and siren. His next radio transmission is one word--bailout; it quickens the pulse of every cop who hears it. Across the west side, squad cars bearing the raised-wing symbol of the mythic Phoenix change direction like birds in flight...
...Miramax?s party, but it?s still Rudy Giuliani?s town. The New York mayor hadn?t had a problem with the studio?s throwing a launch party for its new magazine, Talk -? headed by former New Yorker magazine siren Tina Brown -? at the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard. Until he found out who the cover girl might be: Hillary Clinton, his likely foe in the upcoming U.S. Senate race. And now Rudy?s famous foot has come down -? no Democratic-leaning faux fund-raisers on the city?s dime. "We thought that would lead to an event possibly becoming...
When I first graduated from college, I couldn't decide whether to become a magazine writer or a TV writer. I quickly settled upon unemployed writer, until Martha Stewart hired me to type up gardening tips. The things a man will do just to get close to that siren...
...Porter Square was now looming, and Harvard drifted farther from my mind. The nearly Art-Deco opulence of the old Sears & Roebuck, building tempted me with the siren song of the Gap, but I resisted, the voice of my editor still echoing in my ears. "Further on, further in," I mused, "to Somerville!" And not just any Somerville--not the one of Inman Square and summertime living--but something a little seedier and a hell of a lot closer to Tufts...