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...Westerners, her voice sounds like the siren call of a lovesick cat at midnight. When Egypt's Um Kalthoum sings on Cairo radio, however, the entire Arab world falls into ecstasy...
...Francis Drake and Captain Kidd to make pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners a week, or one Briton in three. Not only is the sport good for advertising bullion; the pirate stations have also become a symbol of the rebellion against the BBC, whose...
...Cummings, Tulips & Chimneys. Norman Douglas, The Siren Land, South
...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...
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...