Word: sirens
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...Last Thursday, at the Capitol, the siren was finally working but the system was not. People streamed obediently out of the Hart Building but one exit was blocked by a guard who said he was following orders, creating a small panic. Afterwards, Lt. Dan Nichols of the Capitol Police said, "It was a mistake, simple as that." They?re not quite ready for the new dangers and have set up with the attending physician, architect, and leadership the Legislative Emergency Preparedness Task Force, which had not completed its recommendations by the time the FBI urged everyone into a state...
...came upon Diva, the Indian Bistro. Diva—the name conjures up images of a sexy siren. We wondered if the restaurant would resemble her name: sassy and high-profile with too much attitude and too little substance. She was certainly attractive, bejeweled in regal hues of deep orange, red and purple. Her style was ethnic exotic with a modern twist, her featured adornments were sultry lantern-like chandeliers draped with folds of white cloth. Lined with gleaming martini and wine glasses, a curvaceous bar swooped and hugged one side. Yet despite the striking and charismatic presence...
...noticed more security everywhere on campus,” said Wendy Caceres ’03. “Whenever I hear a siren, my heart just stops,” she said. “I think, ‘Is something going to happen...
That is because we are fighting not one enemy but two: one unseen, the other inside. Terror on this scale is meant to wreck the way we live our lives--make us flinch when a siren sounds, jump when a door slams and think twice before deciding whether we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win, even if they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness--What can I do? I've already given blood--people started to realize that what they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible, whatever they would have...
...staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine" and a Don Costa-like mixed chorus, with women singing the heavenly-choir "ooo"s and men answering this siren call with a goofy but musically beguiling "wadda-wadda." Darin?s vocal is much more assured, as if he?d just learned not only how to sing, but why. He wrote a sweet song about pining, and it still sounds fabulous...