Word: sirening
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...during World War II Hopkins was working diligently in his office in the West Wing when the door suddenly flew open and there in his blue siren suit stood Winston Churchill, looking smaller than life. He wordlessly gave his benediction to the White House aides by raising his arm and forming the victory sign with his chubby fingers. The door closed as suddenly as it opened. For Hopkins, now 73, it was a singular frame in his own remarkable march of time...
...volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann and the courtesan he marries. The result, Un Amour de Swann (English version: Swann in Love), has opened in Paris, where it is a sensation, attracting intellectual controversy and long lines. Says Producer Stephane: "The miracle happened...
...must not let our future pass by default to the neutralists, pacifists and neoisolationists who systematically seek to undermine all joint efforts. The nations bordering the North Atlantic need above all faith in themselves and the will to resist the siren calls...
Another artist of atrocity, Brian De Palma, took notes from the Hollywood siren too. Much of his cinematic vocabulary comes straight from the old masters: the razor-slick strategies of a Hitchcock murder sequence, the sass and spitfire of a Howard Hawks comedy, the swooping voyeurism of a Vincente Minnelli crane shot. Here De Palma applies his film-school expertise to Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns...
...Harvard right away. And at the 13:04 mark of the period, Sampson, passing from Blair's left, set up Covey Millen with a pass across the slot. Millen shot the moment he took it; tie score. Three of his teammates scored on the same play before the final siren...