Word: sirens
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...Like a fairly significant number of other Harvard students, I have succumbed to the siren song of the gossip blogosphere. I thrive on constant updates on campus celebrities. I check SexandtheIvy.com.I consider IvyGate a legitimate news source. I’ve even been known to visit CampusOTR. With papers unfinished and take-home exams gathering dust, I follow the every move of such luminaries as Lena Chen and “Lamont Guy” with bated breath. But why are they so fascinating...
...Dummy” brought a sultry sort of half-humanity to the genre. While any vocals on Massive Attack’s debut, “Blue Lines,” were samples—and alienating ones at that—Beth Gibbons’ siren vocal work on Portishead’s “Sour Times” and “It Could Be Sweet” was disarmingly beautiful, sinister in its power to alternately engage and enslave the listener. When the group announced their long awaited follow-up to 1997?...
...coffee shop scene, the male protagonist, Joe, is sounding out a Coca-Cola jingle he wrote recently when a siren drowns out his conversation with his friend Alli. The camera leaves the two actors and follows the speeding ambulance through the window, though their voices continue in the background. The camera cuts back to Alli, who says, “I think someone just died hearing your jingle.” The moment—both the ambulance passing and the actor’s response—was completely improvised...
...rolls his r’s to imitate the siren-like purr of his foreign stylist...
...complained to his father, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch: "What's the point of me being here?" The young Murdoch and his wife, Sarah, returned to Sydney, and while a 2-year noncompete clause has kept him out of the headlines, the call of big business was a siren song...