| 单词 | siren |
| 例句 | The sirens were warnings before or after bombardment, and they were always followed by a silent moment of nauseating anticipation of the destruction of our shelter. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z An ear-shattering siren split the air, and the bungee jacket seemed to jump from the rack into her hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I woke up to the scream of sirens speeding up Central Park West, maybe one of the most common sounds in New York City. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The sirens get louder, and the smoke thickens. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The enemy was driven half-way up the lot when sirens sounded. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a story about science, primitive instinct, and culture and sociology, and the tension between the need to stay connected and the risks of being entranced by their siren call. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A siren went off, scared the hell out of him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As the first siren wailed, the Hitler Youth raced to the air-raid stations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead he leaps to his feet, pinpoints the direction that the sirens are coming from, and darts out of the alley. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We nodded as sirens started up in the background. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We were making our getaway, running, when we heard the sirens. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then both wheeled around the corner, roaring into noise and light, motors growling, headlights glaring, sirens howling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they heard the siren, and the headlong, warning bell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The dreams he’d had all had to do . fc . with sirens and crashes and emergencies he was somehow involved in but helpless to prevent. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In Washington, Civil Defense Minister Fiorello La Guardia looped around the city in a police car, sirens blaring, shouting the word “Calm!” into a loudspeaker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Smith climbed in beside him, and the driver hit the siren and slammed the pedal to the floor, darting in and out of lanes and swerving around cars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran until his legs and lungs burned and the sirens stopped getting closer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Before she could get any further, Esme was interrupted by a siren, this one high-pitched and moving fast in our direction. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Boats chug around the lake, careful to avoid the giant water turbines churning along the edge, and the shore's flood sirens are quiet and unlit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A parrot can say anything Albert Einstein could say, as well as mimicking the sounds of phones ringing, doors slamming and sirens wailing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on, I’m awakened by the sound of sirens. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The only plus is that the farther we retreat into the earth, the less shrill the sirens become. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The windows are closed against the cold, but Helmuth can hear the steady wail of a police siren. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z One: The storm sirens in town went off, slicing through the quiet like an angry ghost. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There are no tall buildings around or sirens or loud music and voices—just the soothing sound of speeding cars in the distance. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After that, there was only wind and sirens and a ringing in my ears. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And I didn’t wake until I heard the lighthouse siren singing in the distance and saw the flash of a rocket shot off from Lookout Station, and knew a ship was going down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z No cars driving past, no children shouting, only a very faint siren in the distance. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not the same as hearing sirens in my hood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He glanced up at the sky and the wailing sirens. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of sirens and high-pitched screams swirl around me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask what he thought I should do to get her, but the conversation pretty much ended because the sudden sound of sirens on another block drowned out everything we were saying. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Finally, under the terror-song of the siren, the voices came so close that he could hear words clearly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When someone needed help, Sean was the guy who showed up, sirens blaring, arms pumping, black bag swinging in his big capable hands, sharp eyes taking it all in. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He can do his regular howl, which ain’t much, or he can howl like a police siren or an ambulance. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z As the police siren seemed to draw nearer—was it just one siren? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Outside, I kept expecting to hear a cop’s siren wailing away in the distance, racing toward us, flipping on its spotlight and calling for us to “Freeze!” over their loudspeaker. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I remember the sirens as the ambulance came to get me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z They raced through the Zimbabwe heavens, black on black, blaring sirens that meant “Make way! Or we’ll run you down!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A siren went off in my head, but I couldn’t feel my feet or move. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The sirens screamed as they rode to the hospital. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I lie still, listening to the constant, distant wail of sirens coming from somewhere outside, my eyes fixed on an old water stain on the ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hear a police siren, and I think who is going to be killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And once Ponytail looked over her shoulder, the woooops started back up like a siren. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z As we were leaving sirens wailed in the distance, coming toward us, and this long lanky guy stepped in front of me and said: “Y’all got any transportation?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The loud sirens and flashing lights broke the silence of the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there is a low pulse in my knee right now, a dull throbbing sensation that feels the way distant sirens sound. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Some examples are warning devices, bells, whistles, horns, sirens, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The door shut behind them and the siren howled away. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z There are air-raid sirens, and then we pull the curtains and turn off the lights, though our mother says the war will never come here. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, sirens on 145th Street are no big deal. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Clay sees I’m scared and he winks at me and says, “We’ll turn on the siren, so everyone will get out of our way. That will be lots of fun, won’t it, Ruthie?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z In this part of Brooklyn, with its giant oak trees and multimillion-dollar brownstones, police and ambulance sirens mean that something really did go down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I never know exactly what time it is anymore—except when the siren sounds at noon and then again at 6 for curfew. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Up wells a wail from inside Rosemary, cracking her jaw open, wider and louder than any human cry I've ever heard ever, rising like a police siren, but much slower and so much sadder. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A neighbor had called the fire brigade, and the sirens were on their way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She’s shaking my shoulders, just like in my dream, except instead of John Williams’s score playing, there’s sirens in the background, again, and the tick of a coffee machine. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Every time I close my eyes, I hear the pounding beat and then the ambulance sirens from far away. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When the sirens cried out to warn us of bombers, my neighbors and I jumped to our feet and scurried to the deep caves to hide like wild animals. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So I stood limply in his grip until the sirens came, and the policemen in their little black caps chained my wrists together and shoved me in the back of their car. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how it got there, but I was inside of it, the sirens blaring, my uncle’s ragged voice, the bright lights and someone else—a paramedic maybe—moving around us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I followed them as the trilling intensified, becoming one long siren call. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z A coast guard vessel patrolled the racing lanes, her crew sounding a siren and barking orders through megaphones, keeping the lanes clear of small craft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Until lights pour into the car—spinning blue and red siren lights from the police cars and ambulances. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The next day, right after lunch recess, the atomic bomb sirens wailed again in Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I can hear noises from the street below: a police siren, young girls shouting and laughing, bass booming from a passing car. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The sirens screamed so loud that he seemed to be riding a wave of sound. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We both wince as a fire truck races by with its lights flashing and sirens wailing. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The ambulance’s siren began to howl in the night. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a car horn, honking, sounding some kind of terrible siren song through the streets of Evanston, a howling warning of doom. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z I don’t want to tell him how much the sound of the siren frightens me and brings back memories of the accident. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The ambulance stops, and the wailing siren clicks off. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Every day the sirens screamed to tell us the bombs were coming. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z But off in the distance, I hear the medic truck's siren growing louder. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In her mind that was always what New York sounded like: honking, trucks, sirens. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He heard the distant gunfire and the squawking sirens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The bells were ringing, the sirens were sounding. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But, come to mention, there are kind of a lot of sirens. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There was a lot more traffic than Alex would have expected so early in the morning, and he could still hear sirens in the distance. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He opened the side door and I got in, and he said he was going to drive me home to thank me, and he put the siren on, and off we went. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A distant scream of sirens swells and fades with the mood of the breeze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As the sirens surrounded us, as the cop cars came braking to a halt, the driver’s door opened, and Spoon emerged. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She opened her mouth and a siren came out. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And real far away, I heard an ambulance siren. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z We heard the sound of the siren a couple of blocks away and then it faded. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The hallway falls even more still, if possible, and from sixteen floors below us a siren whirs past, and you can practically hear the flap of a pigeon’s wings from outside the window. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Skylarks sang in the fields around them, but every night the air raid sirens wailed in the darkness as the Luftwaffe planes tried to bomb the nearby city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z See her react to the sirens, rush to help the patients, nod as they gesture for her to descend to the bunker, and then hesitate with her on the stairs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I guess it was the sound of the siren or the people pushing around me that shattered my hypnotic gaze. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bongo leaned close to the glass and performed her very best fire engine siren. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But that December morning, just as the marines were starting on their pancakes, an airraid siren began wailing. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z But now there were many people pushing around me and the sound of the siren grew louder, more urgent. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And the medic truck sirens, almost certainly headed for Figueroa and Watson, have come by just as Thomas promised they would. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z And now, the voices turned toward me, like fire sirens turning onto our street, and I could hear the accusations fading in and out: Who am I to say! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And it didn’t sound like the sirens did when I’d played ambulances with Kat. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the windows, a steady roar was interrupted by sharp sirens or the insistent crash and clang of garbage cans, the whining motors of cars, and the faint sound of babies crying. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The voice sounded clearly in spite of the siren and the clang of the fire wagons. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z An ambulance, lights and sirens blaring, sped past us, going in the opposite direction, toward school, and for an instant, I felt a nervous excitement and thought, It could be someone I know. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Police sirens were wailing, and cops were not paying one bit of attention to all the black teenagers loitering outside the school, running down the sidewalks and the middle of the street. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The distinctive sound of the police siren rang out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With the 101st in town, we didn’t hear as many sirens going off. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I pinched my eyes shut, tried to close my ears to the sound of sirens and the voices of cops. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Police sirens are wailing so loudly that they must be just outside the truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z No sirens, no lights, only the flames reflecting off the shiny black-and-white car. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In an instant, he’s turned into a siren. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Between the sirens and the people shouting and the helicopters whirring overhead, there was no chance anyone could hear him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z All we could hear was the sound of the flames, and little pieces of the car sizzlin’ and burnin’, and then the sirens of the police cars. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe. Anyhow, we have work to do. The She Elephant will certainly know if General Matsika’s coming—he can’t seem to go anywhere without sirens—but she isn’t expecting us.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Alex can’t hear anything outside the door or any sirens on the street, but nobody has come to get them yet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The windows are closed tight, but I can still hear the noises of the city, which are so different from the ones I hear in Bartlett—sirens, yelling, music, garbage trucks rattling up and down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When I try to tell him 128 it wasn’t my fault, he doesn’t want to hear about sirens and broken taillights. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z Lying in their bunks, the men heard the sharp shriek of air-raid sirens. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I heard the siren and saw the scout cars swing into the block in the same instant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I was hoping they’d turn their lights and siren on, but they didn’t. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z No crowds, loud sounds, or police and ambulance sirens. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The two of us in the car, laughing, the radio on, the sudden jar of the crash, the snap of the head, the blood, the sirens. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z But even so, there was an eerie feeling when the sirens began to wail just before the end of the day, and Mrs. Baker stood up from her desk and dapped her hands at us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I need to see if there are any lights and sirens approaching. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The rumble of bombs had quieted and the sirens had finally wound down, and I wondered if all that apocalyptic noise had been keeping me awake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Even the approaching sirens probably hadn’t worried him until the truck braked and the back doors flew open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And,” said Kyle, “you were so totally focused, you didn’t hear the police sirens screaming past the library as they raced to the Gold Leaf Bank...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z About sixty seconds later, we heard the sirens. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It takes away your immunity, makes you knock on wood and count your blessings the next time you hear a siren at night. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But there was only the ceaseless whine of air-raid sirens, and below that a series of dull cracks like rolling thunder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I run along the inner side of the fence, as close as I can get, calling out David’s name, but the sounds of helicopter blades and sirens mute my screams in the blizzard of dust. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But even without pedestrians, the noise from sirens, honking horns, and screaming drivers was overwhelming. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z And from all angles, from in front and behind, came the wailing sound of sirens. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard sirens wailing and a garbled voice over the intercom. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They had their sirens sounding and their lights flashing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Diana started climbing again, this time faster as she focused on the sound of the sirens that grew louder the higher she climbed through the gaping hole in the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I saw the ambulance come back, no siren this time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The voices from the lobby get closer, and I hear a police siren in the distance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I asked All around us, sirens wailed I figured it wouldn't be long before more cops cruised by, looking for juvenile delinquent gym-bombers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The only time I let my feelings out is when I lie in bed at night and listen to the distant krump of explosions and barrel bombs, to the alarms and sirens after an airstrike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “The police siren wail was from that day.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The air felt thick and damp, like the silence that followed the screaming and crying and sirens.The rain had slowed to a drizzle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She was giving Baby an evening bath when the siren alarm sounded again and she grabbed Baby naked and ran from the outhouse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Only I don’t hear no siren no more. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z While I use the store’s water hose to clean Ford’s face, sirens blare past us. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z On the way to the station I can’t stop looking over my shoulder; the sudden scream of a police siren has me literally leaping into the air in fright. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "Handcuffs, machine guns, and so forth. The sirens scream loudly when we ride through Washington. You know what I think of America but now my dream and ours has been destroyed." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Bobbie and Clay were right—returning home in an ambulance, with the siren on, is fun. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z We soon heard the siren of another police car as it pulled up behind the first. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z But sirens in the distance and sirens right on the corner have two different sounds. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the screeching tires first, then the loud, bleating siren next. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Yeah, lots of fun,” I reply, to be polite, even though I am frightened by the siren’s mournful wail. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I push every bit of' air in my body into her lungs, collapsing on top of her, no idea if it was enough, hearing the sirens of the ambulance I called blare in the distance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Another woman lay awake under the moon, listening to the wind and the occasional whine of a police siren. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I slept soundly through a riotous night at Columbia while students and sirens screamed outside my dormitory window. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the river, fireboats let loose with their sirens and shot white plumes of water high into the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lor long stretches no one spoke, leaving only the tap of our shoes on pavement and the sounds of the city: airplanes, the ever-present hum of traffic, sirens that warbled and pitch-shifted around us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She was frantically trying to quiet Maha, whose siren cries threatened to draw fatal attention to our hiding place. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z If there’s a thunderstorm or fireworks or a lot of sirens Devon lets me sit in the hidey-hole in the corner between the foot of his bed and his dresser. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, there was another air-raid alarm this morning, with planes flying over, and another warning siren. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z No sirens and loud music coming from outside. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Police car doors slammed shut, and the cruisers drove away, their sirens on. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning you don’t hear any police sirens or ambulances. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z We don’t see anything then; we just feel how fast we’re going, speeding down the highway from Queens to Brooklyn, the siren blaring. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Heading toward the bridge, heading directly into the chaos, the flames and sirens and smoke. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z And there was no one in the street and it was quieter than it was during the day, even though you could hear traffic in the distance and sirens, so it made me feel calmer. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Other Salamanders were roaring their engines far away, and police sirens were cutting their way across town with their sirens. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He wonders if it shows all over him where he's been, and grins, thinking back on the sweet little number not much older than some of the little sirens sitting around the table now. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Sergio could hear sirens coming from all directions, wailing and screaming out, and he thought immediately of the firemen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Our convoy raced through the streets with sirens wailing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are cars coming already, more sirens, lights. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z With the flames and fear behind them, Gerald and Angel rode together to the music of the sirens which had decorated their past and would forge their future. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The siren noise had been made by an electric guitar, which slowly wound down and transformed into a flurry of notes and chords. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The doors were closed and the ambulance took off, siren wailing, lights flashing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The siren call of Harlem is too loud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The faint sound of the sirens cuts off sharply. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Almost hourly, it seemed, a police siren would blare outside the window or someone would start shouting, unloading a stream of outrage and profanity that would startle me awake on the mattress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When enemy planes were spotted, air-raid sirens wailed, warning Germans to black out their windows. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Before long we heard a siren in the distance. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Marin screamed and we ran down the block to where the cop car’s siren spun a dizzy blue. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the park, a police squad car rolled slowly past, blipping the lights and siren every few moments. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Then, in 1986, pushing forty, he took a vacation in Colorado, felt the siren song of the heights, and enrolled in a rudimentary mountaineering course in Rocky Mountain National Park. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The men were leaping from chunk to chunk when the scream of Vemork’s sirens ripped through the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That night I was jolted awake by wailing sirens, one after another. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Two fire engines raced past him, sirens blaring. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z We flee as sirens blare and whistles blow. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He seized it off the wall behind him, ran, leapt, and they were off, the night wind hammering about their siren scream and their mighty metal thunder! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I focus on the sound of the siren to distract myself. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Wax in our ears—standard procedure when battling evil sirens. Now, throw down your weapons and turn around slowly so I can bind your hands.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Bongo can also do a passable tuba, an impressive Chihuahua, and a fine police siren. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then a car with a siren and flashing red light came on the bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We had almost made it back into the neighborhood, when lights flashed and a siren blipped behind us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Makes me shiver, remembering the real sirens for Tariq a few days ago. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was riding past the middle school and I heard sirens and I thought there was another shooting. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an All Clear siren. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The sirens wailed, as if to remind us that there was supposed to be absolute silence. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Consisting of wire mesh stretching from floor to ceiling, it was rigged to set off a siren if anyone tampered with it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Getting late now. You heard the siren. I smell the harbor on the wind, sea and salt, and maybe—is that smoke I smell, too?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The seventh time we drove into the alley we heard sirens . . . real quiet at first, but then louder. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve got to run the siren for a few seconds or we’re not allowed to pass the school buses. Nothing to worry about.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Right at that moment, as I looked at his unshaven face, his close-cropped hair, and his torn clothes, I thought of the police siren, and put two and two together. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I realized that this meeting was actually about a story I'd written, a story in English about a girl raised by sirens. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The detectives felt as conspicuous as one of Matsika’s police cars with its siren blaring, but to normal people they would have passed like shadows in the gloom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Even with a shortcut along the lakeside, I'm running just barely in front of the sirens and won't have a chance to widen the gap before I reach my family's house. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A flurry of thoughts flash by: police sirens; handcuffs; courtrooms; interrogation chambers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I realize I'm not hearing the normal wail of a police siren. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It would have taken even longer, but the driver used his siren to open up some snarled traffic. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Small fires flared in the streets as police cars arrived and sirens sounded. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Moments later, she spilled her high-pitched siren again. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But then his brain started telling stories again, ones where the police drove their cars onto Coach’s lawn, sirens blaring. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z At last we hear the wail of a siren. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z There are no flashing lights or blaring sirens. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We run until the sirens and crowds and screeching tires are out of earshot, winding our way through back streets and alleys. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z After the sirens fade, the strobe lights still pulse up the block. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The sirens grew painfully loud, and the first cop car screeched up right alongside where Kevin was lying. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Just sat in the dark, listened to the tink-tink of the engine cooling, the wail of a siren in the distance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We would have heard the whistles and the sirens. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It dawned on me then, clear and loud as a siren, that it mattered to Amari what Holly thought about him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I saw a second cop car pulling up, siren wailing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z This is a siren from a military medic truck, the ones used for transporting injured soldiers to the hospital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A convoy of ambulances, police cars, and fire engines turned into the entranceway, their sirens wailing and their lights flashing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a medic truck siren wailing all the time. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Maddie strained to hear what was going on and heard only sirens. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In the distance, Toby heard the faint yell of a siren. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z One morning, soon after sanctions went into effect, we woke up to the sound of sirens on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the sirens faintly in the distance, but his thoughts were only on Angel and the top of the stairs. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been dreaming of a fire, flames eating unknown walls, and the siren sounded, and then it wasn’t a siren but the telephone. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The man paced and prayed and sirens wailed in the distance. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The lead guitar whined like a siren as the house rocked with Kaira’s biggest hit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The boys struggle to stay awake, but no air-raid sirens sound. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z But all the talking is drowned out by sirens. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It doesn’t have the siren on, but the other cars avoid it anyway. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, he saw a car swing out from the curb and roll with screaming siren down the street through the sunshine. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The sirens continue to wail outside—they must be less than a couple of blocks away by now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Somewhere near, in this craziness that is The Angels, I hear a siren. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, well—any help I could get,” she says, and a siren roars outside. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Ambulance sirens at night put me to sleep. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I awake to the sound of my alarm clock, blaring rhythmically, and it seems as loud as an air siren, shouting at me with such ferocity that it sort of hurts my feelings. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Downstairs, the stone elephant began to blare its warning siren. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Limerick City erupts with whistles, horns, sirens, brass bands, people calling and singing, Happy New Year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A police siren sounded far down the road. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, New York only seemed to exhale—horns, voices, machines, tires, sirens, helicopters, music, protests, advertisements—all pushing out the air, all selling noise. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Instead of the comforting sounds of cars and trucks and sirens and people talking on the street, I heard cornstalks rustling in the wind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The police sirens seemed to have faded in the distance, but maybe that was because Finn’s ears had gotten used to them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The sound of police sirens rounds the bend. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It skidded to a stop nearby, cut its siren, and a driver leapt out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The sirens screamed and the cars rolled slowly through the crowded streets and he was feeling the cross that touched his chest, like a knife pointed at his heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The Fire Department rang a second alarm at 1:41 P.M. and activated the big siren at the exposition’s Machinery Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He could hear the sirens in the distance. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The police sirens were getting closer and closer. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly, a fire truck pulls up right beside the playground, siren shrieking. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was afraid to sit down because she might doze off and be unprepared when the siren went off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ms. Wyman is standing there ail of a sudden with her hands on her hips like a cop who’s pulled us over, except there was no siren to warn us. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He got to ride in an ambulance, though they didn’t turn the sirens on. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I listened to the police sirens, the angry horns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My stomach sinks when I hear sirens coming down the block. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The siren sounded again; it was outside in the street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There were only a few blocks left to go when they heard the low wail of sirens. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s okay to wear earmuffs when sirens are piercing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z And then, just like me turning around flipped a switch or something, their lights start flashing and their sirens go on, and you bet I start thinking they’re after us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z All day I would hear the sirens of death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere far away, the wailing of flood sirens. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The constant sound of traffic going and people blowing their car horns and sirens blaring. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She heaved the fish through a window, but the sirens were so loud I could barely even hear the glass break-ing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The ground was unnaturally bright under the moonless sky—partly from the dream, partly from the searchlights that switched on as the pitch of the alarm changed from a trill to a warning siren. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Far off, he could hear the sound of sirens. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s the boredom, but Lucy’s room calls me like a siren. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A siren wailing electronically along the corridors, leaping out from the corners, echoing everywhere. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The food was good, but I lost my appetite the moment I heard the siren. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The siren blares as the man takes us away in the ambulance. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The cars reach the edge of the throng and then slowly pull their way through the crowd, the lead car trying to move everyone to the sidewalks with sharp barks of its siren. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere a police siren wails thinly, up and down, up and down, regular tempo, crisis under control, just like Gerhard. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for me to collect her as I’d promised I would if the sirens ever sounded. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We start with a lurch, while overhead the siren screams: Make way, make way! The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped every time I heard a siren. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No police sirens, no loud music, no couples arguing outside his window on the street. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She hears the sirens wailing as the cold envelops her, numbing her face and her hands, her feet in their thick-soled shoes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s peaceful, watching them, until the horns go off like sirens, so loud that they hurt my teeth. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They got dogs on the street that have heard the sirens so many times they can imitate them perfectly. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The instant they passed the line of poles, sirens went off. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost jumped into a trash can when a police car with his sirens on zipped past me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z With the door shut, the sound of the sirens softens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The bell on the door kept jingling every time someone opened it, letting in the car horns and police sirens from outside. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Police and ambulance sirens are blasting, and the firefighters are handling business on the burning gym, but it’s too late for mad people. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Soon as they sold some cars, she was going to order sirens, hill holders, auto robes—“wind, water, dust, and oil proof”—and chain pulls for getting out of mud or sand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His face tightened, and he could already feel the warning sirens starting up inside his body. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Makes me shiver, remembering the real sirens for Tariq a few days ago. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The only sound in the room was sirens getting closer and closer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And the silence was cracked, suddenly, by an ambulance siren, and a crying bell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The ambulance didn’t put its lights or siren on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I pulled back and said, “I told you the truth. I was sleeping. Like a stump. And I didn’t wake up until I heard sirens. After that, you were pounding on the door.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z You never think it will be your own home that’s on fire, but when it is, all the toughness, the calloused nonchalance of watching fires and hearing sirens falls away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In the distance a police siren is whining, but it’s a pretty peaceful night otherwise, and I always enjoy being on the roof, getting a different perspective. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I said, “No, Frightful, if they are after me there won’t be a siren. They’ll just slip up on me quietly.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though I had been aroused from sleep and for an instant I stood there looking, listening to the voice almost lost in the clamour of shouts, screams, burglar alarms and sirens. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I understood her feelings, the more so because I'd now succumbed myself to what Mr. Pope called "the siren call." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he heard a wailing police siren screaming up the street. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z No police cars zoomed in with sirens howling like coyotes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The first warning siren went off in the morning while we were at breakfast, but we paid no attention, because it only meant that the planes were crossing the coast. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Broadway was limited to emergency vehicles, and they were flying down the avenue, their sirens screaming. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the sounds made by certain wood-boring insects enable their parasites to find them, and to the male mosquito the wing- beat of the female is a siren song. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She’d only taken one stride when the house lit up like a municipal Christmas tree, and a siren started blaring. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They stood on the street, facing in the direction the ambulance had driven, the sound of the siren wailing in the distance. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I was barely aware of the sirens until she pointed them out. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The neighborhood was plagued with crime, and sometimes the police would come in their cruisers, sirens blasting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The medic truck's sirens sound distant for a moment—they're making a turn somewhere—and then all of a sudden, they're deafening. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We started away as the screams of sirens sounded, Clifton cursing quietly to himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin wail of a police siren rose behind them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The shrieking siren, the crowd gazing up at her, the lights of New Pretty Town all spread out below like a million candles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It isn’t long after that the sirens come. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Five days after that first air-raid siren, we heard a rumor that there were guards on the bridges of the Vistula River. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I saw Clancy cringe at the high-pitched shriek of sirens, too, but he straightened himself up from his core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As I’m going up the steps, wide steps with a stone urn on either side — Ofwarren’s Commander must be higher status than ours — I hear another siren. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At around ten o’clock, the sirens started to go off. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled her toward the door just as the freakiest sound Ivy had ever heard loomed over the siren. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At two-thirty Margot had finished her office work and was just gathering her things together when the sirens began wailing again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The roar of police sirens behind them reminded Finn that even if that had been true before, it wasn’t true now. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Thomas clamped his hands to his ears, looking around as the siren blared, his heart about to thump its way out of his chest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My sister’s cries, amid the clashing voices, rose like a siren. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The screaming of the siren shook him out of his dazed state. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I choke back a laugh remembering this now, imagining Helene's face if she knew she was being referred to as a siren. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We took a slow ride from Newark into Manhattan, and then across town to the Hospital for Special Surgery, no lights, no sirens. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Hype shouts again, and he plays a siren. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Through the phone Mrs. Richardson heard the faint blare of a siren passing by and then receding into the distance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A siren screams over Miss Xinh’s voice in the middle of a lesson on smiley and bald President Ford. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The siren was louder than before and there were more shouts and screams. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “What do you say? We’ll turn the siren on at full blast.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z There’s a siren, a taxi horn, music from a window, and a bird chirping. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The streetlights blinking on were a silent siren. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And then I hear another screech—the screech of a police siren. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Our eyes lock for a long minute, and it’s as if everything around us—that band, those voices, that warm summer breeze, sirens, and honking cars in the distance—all come to a full stop. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The first time the riot siren blew, we were eating supper. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was surprised when the siren blurped and the lights started flashing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Somewhere far away, police sirens wailed into the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I sat there a moment before the memory of the shrill siren of the Recruiter’s whistle shoved under my feet like slivers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z On the day my father died, the sirens went off during my school lunch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The memory of sirens, of me walking into the principal’s office where the cops were gathered, of Annie’s cuffed wrists, her tear-streaked face looking up at me in shock, comes back to me now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A beagle scrambling to his feet to start his yipping yowl, answered a few seconds later by fire truck sirens and an angry woman hissing, “Sammy! Bad dog! Hush now!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember well, for instance, the blind animal terror which ensued when some townie set off the civil defense sirens as a joke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Roy was feeling pretty homesick for Montana when he heard the approach of a siren outside. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her screams were louder than the police sirens that eventually came shrieking around our corner, louder than the fire truck and ambulance sirens that followed them, louder than my silent cries. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The sirens of M.P. trucks heading for the club ended the brawl. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The siren song of the void puts you on edge; it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard no wind, no voices, no sirens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Right about then the ambulance comes, I never even heard the siren, and Freak is trying to talk in this croaky voice as they put him on the stretcher. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Every police siren, every drunken hoot—every sound that night triggered the same thought: “They might be coming for me.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Aunt Gloria opened the front door, a siren came wailing up right outside. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z A strange music filled the air: the sirens’ wail and the thump of exploding shells. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Maybe the sirens gave the girl shells that filled her underwater room. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There were no sirens, no authorities of any kind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z About three-thirty the next morning I heard sirens again and I looked out the window and saw that there were two police cars and an ambulance down in the street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t kiss you on the cheek, ’cause my dad is look— GOODBYE, NICHOLAS, her dad screams from the car, then turns on the siren. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The siren died and began again, on a high, shrill note this time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He flashed the ambulance’s emergency lights and fired a quick whirring blast from the siren as he came up our long, flat driveway. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Maybe like a police siren, and a baby cry, and screeching tires all mixed up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z That’s not an option for me with the helicopters, the gunshots, and the sirens. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Mother knew Granddaddy didn’t have a prior engagement, but there was always the siren song of his laboratory or the library. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I heard sirens coming up the street, and I swear I would have stayed staring if it hadn’t been for the cop car that pulled up onto the sidewalk between us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Grandma Sands, said, “What are all them sirens doing? Lord, has the whole world gone mad today? Where’s your momma and daddy?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The chirrup of crosswalk signals, the shrieking of sirens, the hissing of air brakes, even the hushed chatter of people strolling on the sidewalk—I heard every sound individually. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Alex slipped out, closing the door behind him, cutting off the sound of the siren. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The storm siren wound down, like a balloon deflating on a slow leak. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z What else can move a man like me, who would find nothing as siren or comforting? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z You were both in such a stupor that neither the flashing lights nor the sirens seemed to upset you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The sirens were wailing off in the morning distance. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably a big fire downtown. I heard a lot of sirens.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The truth was, Roy didn’t want to be in the emergency room to see what the siren was all about. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain has been so constant for the past few minutes that I have gotten used to it, like a person gets used to a siren’s wail if it remains consistent. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z None of us said anything for a while, but we were all sort of grinning now, and looking at each other, still listening for sirens though no sirens would ever come. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I heard the soft wail of a siren, and I knew the men would be pulling Lupito from the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Canton and Mr. Munch got outside, sirens were already blaring down Portal. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Fire and emergency sirens were commonplace in the neighborhood—the city’s largest hospital was just around the corner. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The roar in the street died; the siren stopped; but the circling columns of yellow continued to whirl. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had I said this than the siren wound down, and apparently stopped on the road at the foot of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The weather was gorgeous, and even though the air-raid sirens soon began to wail, we stayed where we were. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Finally Mrs. Addison has to come out and pull me away until the ambulance leaves with just the light going and not the siren. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Down at Pier 57, the Great Wheel pinwheels and flashes through brilliant color patterns: electric violets, neon greens, siren reds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She pulls over and we watch the line of police cars whiz past us, their sirens shrieking. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z If there’s a thunderstorm or fireworks or a lot of sirens Devon lets me sit in the hidey-hole in the corner between the foot of his bed and his dresser. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A distant siren shakes me out of my sleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z This time, he didn’t bother with the sirens. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The clown’s nose lights up with a clanging siren. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The combined sound of bells tolling and sirens wailing seemed not just a cacophonous way to ring in the new year, but a sound that symbolized a new era in our freedom struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We cover another block, and the sirens begin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He says there were flashing lights but no siren, so it’s no wonder I didn’t hear anything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For Mr. Gersht, born in Tel Aviv three months before the Six-Day War in 1967, the sound of sirens was formative in his youth. Ori Gersht: ‘History Repeating’ at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 2012-08-26T03:54:34Z Though sirens screamed to let the missiles fly, The truly big know when they shouldn’t lose it. Style Invitational Week 1265: Parody for the course — write a song about school 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z More and more singer-songwriters from the pop world seem to be hearing that siren song: The trickle of pop and rock stars turning to the stage is fast becoming a flood. Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals 2013-05-22T12:40:09Z While no one is ever hoping for distractions during Mahler, there was something heartwarming about the siren wailing down 62nd Street and tearing into the symphony’s majestic final minutes. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z At one point, softly whining Disklavier sounds suggested cosmic sirens off in the distance. Review: ‘David Rosenboom: Propositional Music,’ an Avatar of Experimentalism 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z We live in high-density housing in urban centres, where we are prey to sirens, engines and extractor fans. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z As if on cue, a siren blares in the background. After 2 decades in music and 2 kids, Pink still a rockstar 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z And it’s why Lorelei Lee, the gold-digging siren from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” is here to stay. Megan Hilty Covers Older and Newer at the Café Carlyle 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Recognizing the purpose of such gratuitous destruction, Ukrainians have fought back through music, theater and dance performed in ruined theaters as air-raid sirens wail. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z These, plus additional components, such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, glass-break detectors, outdoor cameras and sirens, all wirelessly communicate over radio frequencies with a base station that plugs into an electrical outlet. What to consider when shopping for a home security system 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The sound is a unifying element, and an ecological warning siren. Review | In the galleries: Misty images from a twilight zone 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z They played a soundtrack that mixed the music of Tchaikovsky with gunshots and sirens meant to evoke the war. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Sorrow, Tears and Blood ends with Fela imitating the sound of a police siren, the basis for many a pop hook - including KRS-One's "whoop-whoop" call to arms on Sound of Da Police. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z "I didn’t want to play so I could hear the sirens and we could go to the bomb shelter," she told AP. Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine youth orchestra flees the country 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Conch-shell blasts and wailing sirens summon successive waves of thunderous tom-toms, sizzling cymbals and roaring tam-tams, resounding with a coordinated independence. Music Review: Turning It Outside-In at Armory 2011-02-21T22:53:56Z Next day, in bed, he read in the newspaper that when the sirens had sounded, hundreds of people had rushed out to take shelter in the Métro, but had found the doors closed. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Unlike Bourdain, I cannot resist the siren song of an airplane meal. How to survive 12 hours on a plane while wedged into your coach-class seat 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Sometime between breaking through with “I Love It” and blowing up with “Fancy,” British siren Charli XCX decided she was totally “over the music industry” and made an album of punk rock songs. Charli XCX: "Break the Rules" 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Despite sirens, gnashing brass and strobe lights, this scene does not suggest the severity of Parker’s breakdown. Review: ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ Uses Opera to Tell a Jazz Story 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The makeup was roughly that of a jazz combo, with unusual percussive additions brought in from everyday life — even, at times, gunshots and sirens. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z A school security guard’s siren forced us to leave. My heroin addict friend: 'As her rehab story collapsed, my anger increased' 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Despite the presence of speeding cars and fire engines with wailing sirens, Blanca Gómez’s illustrations create an atmosphere that is overwhelmingly quiet. ‘Goodnight Moon,’ but Not Just Yet 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Beware the siren call of expensive energy drinks and gels. Never be an ego lifter: personal trainers' 12 secrets of succesful exercise 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Numerous recordings from around the world give us subway doors closing, taxi horns, sirens and crowded cafes. Even when you can’t travel, you can still bring the sounds of a far-off city to you. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The siren song of this book will be broken down, note by note — the trills of literary conquest, the wily rhythm of my daredevil heart. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z There's a hand-painted ceramic jelly mould dedicated to Martin Luther King, a collection of replica glass apples, and a siren song produced by malfunctioning strip lights. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-01T00:05:47Z This is what I was thinking about as I drove down Charles Street, before screaming sirens snapped me out of my trance. My preschooler's first police stop: I'm embarrassed — but not for us 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Men and women are poles apart when it comes to choosing their top screen sirens, a survey has found. Audrey Hepburn voted top screen siren by women 2010-04-04T21:00:00Z And then they drown and become actual birds, monstrous ones, whose seductive song, like that of the sirens in Greek myth, draws people to their doom. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z “It’s sort of a siren call,” Ms. Stothart said of that work. ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z Finally, Warner had the governor’s driver meet the bus and race them to the mansion, sirens blaring; Taylor leaped from the car and almost knocked down the governor’s wife on her way in. Elizabeth Taylor loved John Warner. Life in Washington nearly killed her. 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Ear protection had to be worn: the volume reached 130 decibels, the equivalent of an air-raid siren. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Shane is a Beatnik poet, drawn to the siren song of the open road. "The L Word: Generation Q": Shanes I have known 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z In “The Pisces,” her first novel, Broder expands her personal, plaintive mythology of love troubles, sexual siren songs and the inevitable march toward oblivion. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In that store and throughout the book, baby boom musical staples like Joni Mitchell’s “Help Me” serve as easy listening — yet sound a red alert siren in the background. Books of The Times: James Hynes?s ?Next?: A Job Interview to End All Interviews 2010-03-11T05:14:00Z After a gauzy intro, the second version of “Only You” announces the changeover with a steady-thumping beat and digitally chopped-up bits of piano and lead vocal along with sound effects, including sirens and a gunshot. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Outside on Michigan, a siren came and went and Wiman paused, waited, smiled tightly, then continued. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z The National Ballet is active again, though performances are often interrupted by sirens that send patrons and performers scurrying into bomb shelters below ground. An Ad Hoc Ukrainian Ballet Troupe Settles Into Life in The Hague 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z We always hear more than we see: footsteps upstairs or outside; sirens and crashes in the night. 'Neighboring Sounds': Danger lurks silently on Brazilian block 2012-09-20T20:48:10Z Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, for instance, is facing scrutiny in part for using lights and sirens to rush through the streets of Washington to make it to dinner at Le Diplomate. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Finally, I was just like, “You know what? The siren song is calling me back.” Can Movie Theaters and Netflix Coexist? Rian Johnson Makes His Case. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Intermittent sirens from the ambulances lined up outside the hospital punctuated the sounds of Sondheim emanating from the rehearsal piano. Scalpel, Sponge, Magic Beans: When Doctors Moonlight as Actors 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Kids were lured away by the siren call of flashy nonsense like Space Invaders and Pac-Man—you know, with their blinking lights and endless beeping and boastful scrolls of High Scores. The Forgotten Greatness of Air Hockey 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Those sirens and helicopters and newscasts still seem to blare loudly in our ears — another reason for us to go quietly about the dissolution of our marriage. No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The forest siren takes the knight home with her. Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He opened his set with the bluesy “Heartaches and Pain,” about waking up to police sirens and learning his brother was dead, fully justifying that scream. Sharon Jones Headlines Daptone’s Night of Soul 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z He finished writing “Harlem Shuffle” during the first few months of the pandemic, when much of the city felt abandoned and hollowed out, silent except for the sirens. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z They see the sirens as a symbol of female empowerment. These single-mom friends joked about buying a house together. On a whim, they did it. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z And air-raid sirens that cut into the night, bringing dinners to a halt. In my father’s Iraq, his garden was a sanctuary 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Those men who perished upon the rocks for surrendering to the sirens’ euphonious call are the myth’s tragic protagonists—the cautionary tale we embrace. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Rehearsals were often interrupted by sirens, and frequent power outages meant long stretches without light. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The performance is an off-key warning siren: This series is not for everyone. Review: In ‘Haters Back Off!’ a Cringe-Worthy Star Is Born 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s strange to think that the siren call of overstuffed sandwiches and witty retorts is driving your unconscious mind, but it is. Perspective | My month without social media: Less hunger, more time — and who cares about food trends, anyway? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It sounds like a symphony of demented slide-whistles, sirens and the world’s loudest theremins. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The final season plays out with the background noise of sirens, chants and explosions rattling the firm’s floor-to-ceiling windows. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The siren song of a familiar tale can draw a new generation to the box office; to this day we implore our politicians to make surprising policy, to pull off a “Nixon in China.” A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z I've stood at the stove as the waves of 7 p.m. cheers floated into the city streets, and sobbed into my morning coffee at the endless, ominous drone of sirens. My year of obsessive, indifferent baking 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z The 26-minute giddy exercise in modernist mayhem was conceived for 15 synchronized player pianos, two regular pianos, xylophones, electric bells, airplane propellers, bass drums, a siren and more. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: George Antheil, Haydn, Sibelius and More 2014-03-19T16:00:09Z The cuíca, a Brazilian friction drum with a rosined stick fastened to its head, repeatedly yawns like a distant lion, while sirens and clanking anvils evoke an urban jungle. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z He could not, however, resist the siren song of another directorship. Lorin Maazel, an Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z There were rashguards atop skirts dripping in coral ruffles, and beaded star fish and clam shells on siren slips. In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean? 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Ambulances carried no sirens or insignia and at night drove with their headlights off. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z But her fierce fighting in the film’s climactic battle scene makes it obvious that she’s more soldier than siren. How Wonder Woman Steals the Spotlight in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Just as the group arrived at the Brinks warehouse, they heard sirens and saw a van full of U.S. Bigger than “Goodfellas”: Miami Brinks heist mastermind speaks for the first time 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z But I’ve also grown weary of the hysterical siren calls against a Trump nomination. F**k it, I’m rooting for Donald Trump: It’s what the GOP deserves, and what we all deserve if we don’t mobilize 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Their singsong flows, trills, and warbles make pain come alive—a siren song calling out to those who revel in darkness. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “As alleged, these highly-compensated vigilantes caravanned through the streets of Harlem with sirens flashing in order to track a man down and steal and break his phone,” Vance said. DA: 6ix9ine’s bodyguards broke man’s phone after wild chase 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z As the band struck up an ominous tune that wailed like an ambulance siren, the enormous stage curtain rose to reveal a young woman dangling under a mock-up of the Brooklyn Bridge. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Ruth St. Denis — and a cautionary lesson about not judging sirens by their seaweed. Lens: Temptresses of The Times 2011-04-08T09:00:29Z Like their relatives elsewhere, the sirens of the Rio Grande are nocturnal. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The mood is cathartic and celebratory — until it is inevitably broken by another siren’s cry. Learning to Listen to, and Beyond, the Siren’s Call 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The whole town gathered for Mardi Gras, with bikers leading a parade that ended with riders on horseback and fire engines with their sirens screaming. Harper Lee and the Mysteries of Monroeville 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z "They look similar to lots of other sirens," Kline tells me. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The small hours when a blanket of quiet smothers the city, but through the moth-eaten holes there’s the occasional lowing of a railroad in New Jersey, the distant Dopplered wail of an ambulance siren. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z The past and present are a terrifying blur in “Transit,” a brilliant allegory set in France that opens amid wailing police sirens. ‘Transit’ Review: An Existential Puzzler With Jackboots and Terror 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Still, the constant trill of sirens and the many homeless people are reminders of the city’s deeper troubles. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z These siren distractions are also part of the revelry. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z As Odysseus takes the long way home, encountering Circe and sirens and cylops and such, Penelope waits and weaves and unpicks her weaving. Neil Gaiman's top 10 mythical characters 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z He recounted how at one point while filming, a Rome ambulance, siren whining, drove by. Woody's `To Rome with Love' shows the sweet life 2012-04-13T17:29:07Z The feisty French comic book siren Barbarella, who made her debut in 1962, was ahead of her time — but also of it. A French Siren Returns 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In the background are the urban neighborhood street noises — sirens and what could have either been firecrackers or popguns, which add an ineffable tension. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Again, in the distance there were wailing sirens. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Paul is just the latest example of clever aliens heeding America's siren call. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z But the siren song of the White House, that ultimate and elusive prize, still calls to Joe. Jill Biden has never wanted to be first lady, but Joe can’t win the White House without her 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “It’s like two separate worlds,” Seto says, after flinching at the sound of a police siren 26 stories below. Mandalay Bay embodied everything modern Las Vegas wanted to be. Until this week. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I kept tripping over my teammates’ feet while sirens screamed and zombies staggered out of dark corners. Even the walking dead have to make a living somehow 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Throw in motion detection, cloud video storage, floodlights and sirens, and you are “always home no matter where you are,” Siminoff says. Why installing a smart doorbell might be a clever move 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Marlene Dietrich came to see his play; Walter Winchell drove him around to crime scenes in a car with a siren. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The music filled the courtroom Wednesday, introduced by insistent beats and the wail of a siren. Judge Gives DMX a Year in Prison and a Chance to Be Heard, Musically 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z At first they mostly stayed inside, listening to air raid sirens unless their dog needed a walk. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Is it Blue Hill’s homespun charm that exerts such a siren song on writers? Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z I picked up my golden siren key at the front desk with a cheery grazie mille! and threaded my way through the maze of staircases and hallways to find my room. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Packs of barking dogs, screaming sirens echoing through the hallowed halls of the literary patriarchy? Ottessa Moshfegh's short story collection 'Homesick for Another World' wades into the ugliness of people 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In July 1917, when the sirens had sounded, he had climbed to the balcony with some of the other diners to see the first German planes over Paris since January 1916. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z It starts with brisk drums and bass and a cruising rhythm, but then a siren arrives. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z On arrival at LAX, Prince was whisked away by a low-speed golf cart, its siren wailing, its red light turning, as it made a stately low-speed escape through the terminal. Why Minneapolis Loved Prince, and He Loved His Hometown 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z When a woman in bright red enters a hotel lobby, it jars the eye like a visual air-raid siren. REVIEW: In Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal Sees Double 2014-03-13T17:07:23Z I heard a siren draw nearer before fading away. Experience: I went jogging and lost my leg 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z “I had a good war,” he wrote, “of a small boy whisked from London at the first wail of sirens.” Sir John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78 2012-08-03T01:01:09Z It a-OOO-gahed true, like those terrifying European police sirens that sound like God is going into cardiac arrest. Perspective | President Trump: The new Mae West? Let us explain. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z And he tells them to keep the siren off, because he'd rather have a snooze than get there sooner. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #15 – Montalbano 2012-08-13T10:31:04Z Women have been sirens or mommies, on hand to inflame the boys’ desires or soothe their fears. Movie Review: Adulthood vs. Arrested Development in ‘Neighbors’ 2014-05-08T12:00:03Z The bright crimson bird flashed like a red siren as it fluttered to a nearby tree branch. The U.S. Issue:?Explorer: An Eden for Rare Birds in Hawaii 2011-05-13T20:14:41Z “Varèse himself was in charge of the sirens for the recording,” Slonimsky wrote. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z Rodgers said there were other witnesses with him on that snowy night in 2005, when he heard a siren and went outside to glimpse something otherworldly. Aaron Rodgers Is Still Convinced He Saw a U.F.O. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Greek gods toyed with mortals, sending Odysseus toward conniving sirens, a Cyclops and other dangers on his journey home from war. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s not about the tail or posing as a siren on a rock. The Last Mermaid Show 2013-07-05T13:25:59Z It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The jealous wife was escorted away, and her husband, still alive, was put on a stretcher and driven off in the ambulance with its siren blaring. Pablo Neruda Wrote Me a Poem 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Unlike the sirens, however, they sing not to lure men to destruction but to detail the wrecking of their own hearts. Peggy Sue: Fossils and Other Phantoms | CD review 2010-03-18T23:30:00Z The story of the siren Delilah seducing the Hebrew hero Samson into giving up the secret of his strength — his hair — is Sunday-school familiar. Review | ‘Samson and Delilah’ has old-school opera style and strengths 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s wildly colorful, employing an oversized chorus with full orchestra and nearly every musical and percussive effect short of police sirens. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z I was whisked away in a white convertible with police escort and lights and sirens blaring. Seafair’s parade of memories 2013-07-27T04:54:28Z But then, “they put that siren on, that screaming siren,” just before the German dive bombers would rush over the treetops aiming for the departing ships. Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z An electronic drone is transformed into a siren that ushers in a fascist march tune. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z That's why suspense films usually end right after a bloodbath, with the surviving characters sitting on the front porch while distant police sirens wail. "Breaking Bad" 4x5, "Shotgun" 2011-08-15T06:01:00Z In between, there are marching bands, the wail of police sirens, shouts and silences, like that stillness at the centre of the tornado. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z Have you ever wondered how the sirens lost their wings? ‘Here Be Sirens,’ a Little Philosophy Included 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z I played dumb as the sound of sirens from the firetrucks drew closer and excused myself to grant the crew access through the front door. I thought my grill game was Grade-A until I discovered these flavor combinations 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Officials "pulled several cars on to the grass, flashed lights and sirens and demanded everyone leave or be arrested for trespassing", it reported. Kanye West's New Slaves screening shut down by Houston police 2013-05-27T10:34:00Z The sirens go off and people start talking about “cancel culture,” which always seems to me a reason to tune out talking about any of those things that make us uncomfortable. How a Review Changed Both Sarah Silverman and Our Critic 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Entwistle’s short career as siren and her untimely death at the age of 24 are emblematic of the strange dichotomy of the city: sparkling, yet dark; seductive, yet scary. Touring the Dark Side of Los Angeles 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z There may be no sweeter song in the siren’s repertoire than “revolution.” If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z And even now 15 years later, when he shivers at the sound of fire alarms, when his ears twitch at sirens, I wonder how much he remembers. The last 9/11 survivor: What my dog remembers about that day 15 years ago 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The following year Mr. Ferré spotted Leighton’s siren in a London gallery and, as he put it, “fell in love with her at first sight.” Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It began with an air-raid siren followed by a loudspeaker announcement: “All Señor Frog’s staff report to the kitchen!” At Señor Frog’s in Times Square, It’s Spring Break Forever 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The slender sirens, pictured wearing precious little in the pages of the issue, tend to wake up in a different city or island paradise every week. How Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Models Pack Their Suitcases 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z My favorite conversation, though, was with an unmarried male friend who loves pursuing women, and who has so far resisted the siren call of marriage. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Not a siren come from a coral cave to bewitch a sailor. The sudden, gruesome opening of "Jaws" 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z “I was excited to not have to hear the sirens every day,” Donoso said. ‘Little Shop,’ Big Relief: How One Theater Safely Put on an Indoor Show 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z On the bright side, this means I’m a siren. Why Did Google Erase Dennis Cooper’s Beloved Literary Blog? 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z But the storyline that gets lost is that the sirens themselves would die if a mortal resisted their beckoning. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Homeowners stood on their lawns surrounded by eerie quiet and the stunned expressions of their neighbors’ awe and pain, the midnight sirens still ringing in their ears. Perspective | I work in a grocery store. Am I a hero now? 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z To Blanchett, the term femme fatale suggests a diabolical woman — “like a siren seeking to draw the male character onto the rocks to destroy them for no reason apart from they have diabolical urges.” Blanchett, del Toro on the femme fatale of ‘Nightmare Alley’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Once we were in B&Q when the fire alarm sounded and, executing her training perfectly, she lay on the floor and stared at me, hard, to tell me a siren was blaring. Experience: my dog found my cancer 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The cat hotel ad features the owner speaking cat — her term — making noises that sound like police sirens heard through thick headphones. Television Review: Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path 2011-06-23T22:31:27Z Despite this ascent towards the A-list, Debicki has resisted the siren song of social media, something which is unusual among newer recruits to Hollywood. Elizabeth Debicki: ‘I’m not interested in being comfortable’ 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z The Greeks conjured seas, lovers, deceptions, sirens, monsters, battles and the tricks of gods. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The bulk of the movie replaces dialogue with the sounds of a revving car engine, a police siren and a shredding electric guitar. Barry Newman, Star of the Cult Film ‘Vanishing Point,’ Dies at 92 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The head of its literary department tells of how she had to turn down foreign interview requests because sirens wouldn’t stop wailing. How the War Changed a Kyiv Museum’s View of Its Past 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z And then it’s kind of like this siren. ‘Free Solo’ filmmakers swap peaks for depths in ‘The Rescue’ 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z People born in the 2000s can embrace the low-rise jeans and jersey dresses of decades before they were born, regardless of where they live, and resist the siren call of fast fashion. For the (Renewed) Love of Vintage Dressing 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The beat was ticking and chattering somewhere on the sidelines; there were low, irregular throbs of bass and ominous, staticky crackling, along with a hint of distant sirens. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z Now the sirens are getting closer, and the walls of nearby buildings light up with the rooftop lights of approaching police cars. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 10: Anatomy of a Murder 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Until Sunday night, most of the world thought of Novak primarily as the siren of Hitchcock’s iconic “Vertigo,” a famously stunning actress whose career peak happened nearly sixty years ago. Kim Novak and the curse of the beauty 2014-03-04T20:24:00Z Long before Idan Raichel became Israel's most visible international pop star, the keyboardist found his imagination captured by the siren call of the desert. Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka Tour? find musical oasis in Sahara 2012-04-26T20:12:04Z Phelim O'Neill There's a brief flash of excitement in suburbia this week when Tessa hears the welcome sound of police sirens, but it turns out the crime victims are a collection of Shirley Temple dolls. TV highlights 07/08/2012 2012-08-06T19:00:01Z This score is a gigantic assemblage of blaring, pummeling, deafening, vehemently dissonant orchestral sounds, complete with a siren and a lion’s roar. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z The siren call of Amazon, specifically the opening of its second headquarters in Northern Virginia, is changing the landscape in ways small and supersize. Review | Twin bistros in Northern Virginia put a personal spin on Indian cooking 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The interest shown by local teenagers and passers-by, and the distant sirens of police cars, added to the sense that Ellams's mythic city is our city, too. Knight Watch – review 2012-07-13T14:44:42Z For the reforming national consciousness, authority served as a kind of siren song, luring the public out of the rowdy cabarets and nightclubs and back on the straight and narrow. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z In the tale he spins, Martin-Salvan’s character goes on an adventure around Europe to reconnect with a siren, all the while mumbling in a mix of gibberish and English. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “There’s the entire juggling act — you’re FaceTiming with your kids and there’s air raid sirens and bombs going off in the distance.” In Ukraine, female war reporters build on legacy of pioneers 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Related Topics: All-TIME 100, Music, , Populist Get this album Start with what is often cited as the zazziest opening in rock history: a guitar’s siren call to get up and dance. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z It’s a sad fact that in a lot of 19th-century English-language fiction people of mixed race are regularly presented as double-crossing villains or diabolical sirens. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Last week an ambulance and a police car were heading in my direction with lights flashing and siren going off. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Rules of the road 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z On the other side: the powerful siren song of phones, laptops, tablets and video games. 6 ways parents can help kids strike a balance between screen time and the real world 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Then darkness fell, and a tense wail hijacked the soundtrack, like a siren stuck at one pitch. Jaro Vinarsky’s ‘Animalinside’ Explores Masculinity 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Edward Hopper’s paintings, with their starkly lighted vignettes of big-city anomie and their mysterious denizens who seem frozen in a moment of doubt, have long exerted a siren call on artists of various stripes. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z As a siren wails and their faces distort, their stomachs fill with fluid that rushes to their mouths and erupts. Museum Show for David Lynch, Who Began as a Visual Artist 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z When you hear a siren wail, it’s a warning. Perspective | Chris Cornell’s singular voice soared above the gloom of grunge 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z “Every time I hear a siren, I think, Where are my children? In this, they succeeded,” she said. The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z But standing in his living room I find myself doing what most others do about Feldman these days: “Look at this guy,” I think, giving in to the siren call of snark. Corey Feldman: 'The biggest problem in Hollywood is paedophilia' 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Granted, just as the nice facial lady was giving me an extremely satisfying scalp massage, a siren roared by on Broadway. Day Spas in Manhattan: an Urban Oasis 2012-02-16T23:11:33Z The full-throated poems in this debut collection see the world whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of social injustice: “Neighbors chatting while sirens / gathered in volume, urgency.” New & Noteworthy Poetry, From First Peoples to Posthumous Ashbery 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z As a result, when a story emerges from Hollywood of people being kind and recognizing the value of individual artistry, it should be embraced as an antidote to the siren song of cynicism. Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z As a gaunt man slowly raises a flute and exhales into it raggedly, an unearthly noise emerges: a blend of ascending siren whistles and long, rasping sighs like the groans of ghosts. Rosas: En Atendant – review 2012-11-06T17:51:57Z Whenever she heard a loud noise — from a passing train or a tram rushing through Amsterdam’s cobbled streets — she got scared, she said, reminded of bombs and sirens back home. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “Don’t you run when you hear the sirens coming,” she sings at first, “if you’ve done nothing wrong, blue lights should just pass you by.” The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Yale ensemble adroitly illuminated its quirky nuances, like the siren imitation and the flatulent waltz. Music Review: Penderecki Conducts His Work at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-02T20:59:00Z Different recipes call to me like the siren song of the perfect chocolate chip cookie. How to make your challah lovelier and sweeter for the Jewish New Year 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z He tries to fall asleep in their new apartment, but it's too quiet so he puts on a YouTube video of car crashes and police sirens as a kind of demented white noise machine. The final season of "Shameless" was at its best when it explored the nuances of gentrification 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z In the violins, glissandos that slide the pitch slowly up and down are redolent of a distant siren. Review: A Guest Conductor Reveals the Philharmonic’s Potential 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Neighbors turned their suspicions upon one another as evenings erupted in the wail of sirens. An arsonist was terrorizing rural Virginia. But he had a peculiar way of doing it. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z These sufferers tell one another their stories and form a community to resist the siren song of despair. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Other winners at the 38th annual ceremony included country stars Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley; funk band the Black Eyed Peas; R&B singer Rihanna, and Colombian pop siren Shakira. Justin Bieber sweeps American Music Awards 2010-11-23T03:49:00Z A tempestuous siren who discards the innocent Don José for the charismatic bullfighter Escamillo — only to be murdered by her spurned lover? 'Carmen': Quite a woman at Seattle Opera 2011-10-05T22:47:04Z Next door on Nostrand Avenue is the Immaculee Bakery, whose Haitian pâtés are an irresistible siren to both kinds of customers — those who call them pah-tays and the ones who ask for patties. Basking in a Vegan Caribbean at Aunts et Uncles in Brooklyn 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z An insufficient siren for her lovers and a whiny captive to boot — dissatisfied by her grub, she virtually begs for arugula — O has only one function in the plot: as bait. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z Get this: Before 2018, most of us had never heard of Stormy Daniels, the siren imperiling this hero’s journey. Perspective | Whose hero’s journey was it anyway? Your 2018 in review 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Every year, the anniversary is marked with somber commemorations, with the wailing of a siren, a minute of silence and special prayers in churches. Madonna concert in Poland to open with WWII film 2012-07-18T17:42:12Z It also explains the siren call of the dark psychological thrillers of Ruth Rendell. Learning to Love Airport Lit 2012-02-17T20:39:16Z Still, downhill skiing is the siren call of these mountains. 36 Hours in St. Moritz 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The trauma of Benjamin’s crash anchors her new album, “Phoenix,” out Friday, a vast, labyrinthine set of arrangements that opens with “Amerikkan Skin,” a propulsive song that features the wail of emergency vehicle sirens. A Car Accident Couldn’t Halt the Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s Rise 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmán performed the song at one of the raid siren locations, accompanied by pizzicato bass and a lyrically swooning violin stationed nearby. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z For decades, Debbie Harry has been saving her fan art, hundreds of versions of that familiar siren face, rendered by admirers of all talents. The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z We hear shouts and sirens from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z That free-form word cited above with all the W’s is the sound of a police siren as baton-wielding troopers race to the church protest in Americus, Ga., to cuff Lewis for the umpteenth time. John Lewis’s Sequel to His Award-Winning Graphic Memoir, ‘March’ 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Indonesia's disaster management agency said power was down in Aceh province and people were gathering on high ground as sirens warned of the danger. Massive quake strikes off Indonesia 2012-04-11T12:13:00Z Single long bursts of sound occur, like a slow conversation among a harbor siren, an alarm clock and a road drill — with equally long interstices of silence. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z What was left for him was to parse her siren powers, to make sense of the terrible subjugation brought on by his own desire. T Magazine: Hello Again, Norma Jeane 2011-03-01T18:40:52Z After the fire truck, a police car arrived in the neighborhood, as Natalie yelled with glee and ran around in circles as the patrol car flashed its sirens. Girl, 5, surprised on quarantine birthday with visit from first responders: 'She just went nuts' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The newly restored bunker features a small exhibition with gas masks, leaflets sent ahead of rare Allied bombing raids during the war and recordings of the sounds of air raid sirens. Mussolini Slept Here: Unearthing a Roman Villa’s Uneasy Past 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z She loves to sing and learns the lyrics faster than her friends, but loud noises like sirens upset her. What’s on TV Monday: An Autistic Muppet on ‘Sesame Street’ and a New Season of ‘Better Call Saul’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The sequence of marriages and the not-so-distant sirens of war turn up as transparent markers of progress, but they never believably penetrate the tiny bubble of time and space where these characters live. ‘Wish You Were Here’ Review: The Saga of Female Friendship 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The binary fire-engine siren of the violin’s opening line grew multiple dimensions as the distortion created the illusion of spatial and acoustic depth. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z But now he’s riding around Manurewa, blasting Pop Smoke, waiting for the chance to hop on a plane and hear his siren echoing around the world. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z She nearly played the stage siren Desiree in a revival of “A Little Night Music” on Broadway 15 years ago, before that project fell through. Glenn Close Returns to Broadway in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z “The River” recalls Hank Williams’s “Long Gone Lonesome Blues,” a song, from 1950, in which an unnamed river functions similarly—a siren, beckoning the brokenhearted but denying them absolution. Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Reasonable people might disagree, but in dark times, folks turn to the Surrey-born siren. Take cover! It's the Swells iPod! 2010-06-24T11:58:00Z For example, “Cookie” successfully requested to sing the role of siren Maria Reynolds in “Say No to This.” Now everyone can have a chance to star in ‘Hamilton’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z And Ms. Anderson looked amused when police or ambulance sirens on Amsterdam Avenue seemed to fit snugly into the musical texture, built mostly around hypnotic beats and repeated short figures. Music Review: Two Interpretations of New York, One Layered With Tart Observations 2011-08-11T21:59:53Z And we ran after the siren lights broke the cool, laminar orbits of our youth. Oliver de la Paz's poem 'Last Days' 2010-04-28T23:17:00Z Because this is our life now: An air raid siren goes off — you go downstairs, you wait, you go back up. DakhaBrakha, a Band From Kyiv, Saw a War Coming 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Some sounds are conspicuously absent: sirens, deemed too triggering in the pandemic. It’s Showtime! Press Play to Hear the N.Y.C. That Used to Be 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In my neighborhood, sounds of nature were sirens and gunshots. My city kid summer camp nightmare 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Walling is both star and morphing other, warping breathy harmonies and siren miasmas into elegant cyborg operas. Gazelle Twin: The Entire City ? review 2011-07-14T22:59:01Z At the six-week mark when many people with relaxed hair would be headed back to the salon, she felt the siren call of Instagram marketing. Now’s the Time for Wigs. If You Can Get the Hair for Them. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The forces of covert coercion close in, with blaring sirens. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z Phil, wanting to commission an opera using the sirens as central set pieces, she was all in. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Annie Gosfield, a New York composer and keyboardist, exuberantly exploits the inadvertent music of contemporary life: static, distortion, the clangor of industry and the siren song of space junk form part of her digital palette. Music Review: Moving Sounds Festival at the Czech Center 2012-09-16T22:18:00Z In the distance, at about 2 o’clock as you look to the horizon, lie three islands called Le Galli, home to the sirens, the mythic creatures whose song lured sailors to their doom. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “Tie me to a post and block my ears” and “make your siren’s call and sing all you want” allude to Homer’s “The Odyssey.” Mumford & Sons to open for U2 at CenturyLink Field 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Heroically, on this visit, I resisted the siren call of Sydney Harbor and the beaches. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z It was hard to understand the full extent of the flooding that first night, though the evacuation sirens along Boulder Creek offered hints. Help, we’re drowning!: Please pay attention to our disaster 2013-09-17T23:00:00Z But now in the absence of other sounds like heavy traffic, construction and the springtime shrieks of children on playgrounds, the sirens are all there is to hear. Learning to Listen to, and Beyond, the Siren’s Call 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It was the irresistible call of thrice-warmed hash browns, the siren wail of coagulating grits. Waffle House to commit culinary crime with 'fanciest' location in New Orleans 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Inside his apartment near the center of the city, he practiced on a vibraphone, taking shelter in a corridor when air-raid sirens sounded. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z As police sirens neared our building, the killer escaped the way he came. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z On another, an illustrated siren swims amid a sea of pixels - a nod to the pair's constant juxtaposition of the hand-drawn and the digital - in a woven re-creation of an invitation for a Givenchy show. | 'Carpetalogue' at Libby Sellers Gallery 2012-10-12T19:00:53Z To determine whether the borderland sirens are a new species, Kline needs healthy populations from which to draw samples. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z After closing and bolting the door, Louis starts narrating a nuclear attack as his friends outside the shelter crank an air raid siren. Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z We laughed uneasily together at that, poured out the last of the wine, and listened as a siren rang out on the street below. Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z Ritta looks solid and real while Jackie's whole anatomy is thrown together; apart from her Hollywood siren stare, she is wonderfully provisional in every way. The weird world of Alice Neel 2010-07-07T20:30:00Z Homer’s Ulysses referred to Capri’s coast as the realm of sirens, mythological beings who enticed sailors to their death, and these appeared as modern-day versions. Pucci Returns to Capri 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z But it is a day when the distant wail of firetruck sirens sound ominous, nerves grow raw and viewers become hypersensitive to the misplaced word or self-serving gesture. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z Explosives detonate — at one point, it seems, mere feet away — and sirens wail, but to the children and their caregivers a looming eviction is every bit as terrifying. Movie Review: ‘In My Mother’s Arms,’ a Film About Orphans in Baghdad 2012-10-07T22:10:24Z Chat rooms connected strangers with cryptic screen names and the shriek of a dial-up modem was the siren's call of the world wide web. 11 facts about Napster 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z On an album full of memorable songs, perhaps Bassnectar's too-short "Calling From Above" sums it up best - a torrent of eerie, dynamic electronic sounds punctuated by siren calls to get lost in the music. Review: 'Mortal Instruments' album intoxicating 2013-08-20T13:51:34Z Yet Mr. Kimball is not immune to the siren songs of some gizmos. All Those Kitchen Gadgets, but a Sharp Knife Just Might Do 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Sit in an actual police cruiser as you learn the meaning of different emergency light patterns and sirens. New museum lets visitors walk in the shoes of a police officer 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z And Brad Peterson’s video projections present an oceanic horizon increasingly cluttered with victims of the sirens’ irresistible allure — a quality shared by Ms. Soper’s remarkable show. Music Review: ‘Here Be Sirens’ Blends Opera and Play 2014-01-22T22:08:00Z But the muffled sounds of television and radio reports on the storms — and of sirens from the streets — beautifully evoke the way in which the whole world seems apocalyptic after a personal tragedy. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Never mind the sirens screaming on the street as Polonius slumped, stabbed; they weren’t for him. The Drilling Company Presents ‘Hamlet’ in Bryant Park 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z April was awful in New York; it was the centre of the pandemic and the wailing of ambulance sirens was nonstop. How was lockdown living with my partner? So good I missed her when she went to the balcony 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The metallic edge is so piercing that the first act closer, “This Joint Is Jumpin,’ ” makes the singers sound like emergency sirens even before the police car effects in the sound design. Review | Signature’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ ’ takes a while to get jazzed up 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z CAP D'ANTIBES, France — Two days before the Cannes Film Festival opens, the glamour got pumping Monday on the French Riviera at Chanel's 2011-12 Cruise show - worthy of a screen siren from Hollywood's golden age. Chanel jump-starts Cannes with Cruise collection 2011-05-09T19:42:15Z On the morning of departure, sirens wailed and police cordons appeared around Moscow, closing metro stations and blocking access to supermarkets owing to the arrival of Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. ‘The Godfather of trains’: the Trans-Mongolian from Moscow to Beijing 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Hollywood drew him, but he couldn't resist the siren call of L.A. theater. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The subjects include the inadequacy of words, the siren call of eternity and the concurrent pain and joy of being alive. Theater Review: ‘I Am the Wind,’ by Jon Fosse, Features Men Alone at Sea 2014-01-17T02:00:01Z But ignore those siren voices, often older actors moaning about their lack of job opportunities. Miss Marple reverses the ageing process 2011-03-30T19:00:01Z Though unlike Ms. Mazar, the screen siren was enigmatic in her description of glamour: “The which I would like to know the meaning of.” Debi Mazar’s Talent for Glamour 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z I tried to resist, but the silos called to me like dry-docked sirens. Waco, Tex., needed fixing. Luckily, Chip and Joanna Gaines had the tools. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z During a visit to Daniel’s apartment, the dialogue takes a back seat to car alarms and police sirens. Snitch: The Rock in a Hard Place 2013-02-22T13:00:10Z It's a well-acted and swiftly unfolding tale of sirens in the night, piercing the blackness, and of weary eyes gazing at the harsh morning light. 'Carancho': a well-acted, compelling drama of temporary refuge 2011-03-24T22:23:04Z Some days it is the only thing I hear from outside that is not an ambulance siren. In Praise of Quarantine Clapping 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z As Swift teased out song titles like a siren bingo hall caller, fans expressed wonderment, bordering on exasperation, about the late-night reveals of "Midnights." Sleep deprivation and Taylor Swift: what the demands of modern fandom say about us 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The siren’s call, a distinctive sequence of four notes, is based on the Dies Irae, a Latin hymn best known for being used in the Catholic Mass for the dead. How to Follow Up ‘Frozen’? With Melancholy and a Power Ballad 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Here’s my short list: I’m a sucker for a wacky premise so I’m hearing the siren call of ‘Still Life,’ about a couple of grapes. Shows to Consider at New York’s Fringe Festival 2013-08-08T21:36:11Z The shadows of past “Cat” actresses are long, and maybe overpopulated with images of bombshells and sirens. Williams’s ‘Cat’ lands on its feet at Round House 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z My nose scrunched as the charred air mixed with stale remnants of the city’s inhabitants, and horns and sirens blared around me. Driving 2,130 Miles for a Haircut 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Among the busy, chaotic set pieces, a few stand out, notably a haunting and absurd encounter with shape-shifting sirens who lure mariners to their doom. Review: ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift,’ With Ray Romano 2012-07-12T13:54:00Z The sound of a police siren sounds different. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z There’s hardly any ambulances or sirens or cops, there’s hardly anybody working. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z Having won the battle for suffrage and planted the seeds of feminism, they matured from flapper to screen siren. Review: American Women on the March 2010-05-03T12:00:00Z She was not only Bogie’s sultry siren in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, but a kickass fighter, the only child of a divorced, dirt-poor, single immigrant mother. What the media isn’t telling you about Lauren Bacall (and Humphrey Bogart) 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The report says the officers who used lights and sirens to escort Sheen from Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia to a performance in Washington last April did nothing wrong. APNewsBreak: DC report says Sheen escort 'routine' 2011-07-13T18:41:08Z We are the home of Kelly Clarkson singing siren calls that land on ears thousands of miles away, luring some of them with the offer of a better life. "Little America" is a joyful roadtrip through the American dream in Apple TV+'s best series yet 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Police were able to locate the cab near Schiller Court and State Street and police activated lights and sirens but the man refused to stop, Mirabelli said. 3 police officers hurt after man steals cab 2011-12-18T19:17:00Z “The first thing you hear” on the track, she said, “is the sirens going off on Lafayette Street,” from the nearby firehouse. The Carpetbagger: Karen O, Inspired by ‘The Jerk’ 2014-02-11T15:40:17Z But in this instance, the siren is quite real. 'Mermaids' find raison d'etre in Brazil 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z There was plenty of lively crowd-captured video from the siren sites posted on social media. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z A siren was heard down the block, but it couldn’t be determined whether the alarm was real. Readying (or Not) for the End of ?Intent? 2011-04-29T23:37:24Z But since samples from live sirens are also useful, the researchers leave traps in various places at six survey sites. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z A neighbor who is a cardiologist heard the sirens, and raced over. Their dad was drowning. They saved him using CPR they saw in movie scenes. 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The third and apparent leader of these unlikely Upper West Side sirens, a brunette in head-to-toe black, was the most aggressive. Critical Shopper: Could This Be Paris? No, Now Leave Me Alone. 2011-05-11T16:37:02Z Some sensors connect to larger security systems, some work alone, emitting a loud siren, and some connect to an app on your phone. Your spring home-safety checklist 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z That is one reason that the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day here is observed by a moment of nationwide stillness: a siren sounds, commerce halts, and cars pull over to the side of the highway. Critic’s Notebook: Israel’s Holocaust Museums Evolve in Message and Methods 2012-09-04T22:03:21Z Every writer I know has been pushed towards the first-person, or felt its siren call, and book publishers have endless faith in their appeal. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z There, using cellphones as flashlights, they resumed their singing, filling the cold, cramped space with folk songs and carols until the sirens faded. Scarred by War, a Ukrainian Children’s Choir Finds Hope in Music 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Who would keep my finicky plants alive, remember recycling day and know how many seconds it takes to turn off the security system before the sirens blare? How to cope when the business or service provider you rely on goes out of business 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z I painted my first pandemic jar to the sounds of sirens in the background. Upcycling old jars is self-care in its purest form 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z In fact, none other than radical composer Georges Antheil, best known for his “Ballet Mécanique,” which requires 16 player pianos, as well as a cacophony of bells, buzzers, xylophones, airplane propellers and a siren. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z But his nasal vocal, the strangled way he pronounces “Norf Side Long Beach” and the electronic siren tone at the center of Clams Casino’s production make him sound more bleak than boastful. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z As I sat with her, I still heard wailing sirens, and wondered if the events of the day reminded her of similar scenes during the Nazi occupation. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Not even the preschool teacher is exempt: She’s trying to suppress memories of a night in Florida that ended with “police sirens and despair.” Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Sounds of buses, sirens and braking cars remind you that you’re downtown. With a homeless center on campus, students have an unusual chance to serve 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z In “Listen Before I Go,” a glacial piano ballad with looming reverberations, the narrator herself is suicidal; “Sorry, can’t save me,” she warns, and sirens at the end suggest the worst. Billie Eilish Redefines Teen-Pop Stardom on a Haunted, Heartfelt Debut Album 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Claiming that was "the siren song," McCain expressed dissatisfaction with Goldberg's personal anecdote. Meghan McCain has already had a meltdown about the alleged “war on Christmas,” and it is only... 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Bejo said she realized early on that she was going to have a lot of research for the role of a silent screen siren - a task she relished. Silence is golden in Hollywood homage 'The Artist' 2011-05-19T16:46:05Z But while Salapu noted that siren culture is “anti-establishment, rebellious,” he also pointed out that much of the music emerging from that scene has strong connections to the sounds of earlier generations. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Still, there is the siren call of those extra-dimensional dollars -- and other 3D currencies. 2010-01-27T08:37:00Z I heard a telltale hissing — fog in production! — just as an ambulance siren started up on the Fenway. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The hero travels through Middle Earth and meets wizards, sirens and trolls. Cannes film festival diary: no joy in Godard 2010-05-19T09:22:00Z Sounds and news from the siren sites will in turn be broadcast into the hall. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Churchill popularized these so-called “siren suits” — one-piece zip-up garments — as practical bomb shelter attire. For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The blue lights accompany police sirens, and in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood their arrival brings fear even to bystanders who might get swept into trouble. The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z In Homer’s “The Odyssey,” they hold magic and monsters, from the deadly cyclops to the sirens who nearly lure the sailors to their deaths. Review | Desert-island books: Science fiction tales set in isolation that feel just right now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Constantly lured by social networks and drawn by the siren ringtone of incoming texts, they will be unable to read the book as it should be read: with reflection. Sherry Turkle's 'Alone Together': lonely in a world with 1,000 virtual distractions 2011-01-20T22:21:04Z “Everyone stood up and was like” — Greta makes a sound like an ambulance siren. Adam Driver needs someone to talk to, and Geena Davis’s dress is under my foot: This is the Vanity Fair Oscar party 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z In the second, a siren crescendoed into a blaring signal whistle to herald the piano’s violent re-entry — a satisfying climax built from unusual means. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z As Fiennes began to speak to the dozens of handmaids before him, a police siren went off. The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As they sat in their own silence, sirens and traffic wailed below. Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z More often, the rhythmic clatter resembled jackhammers, air-raid sirens and hiccupping machinery. Boys Noize’s industrial revolution hammers D.C. nightclub 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Funnily enough, though, Jawsh himself never had a siren on his bicycle up until a couple of months ago. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z But it’s hard for a financier foundation or broadcaster to not to hear the siren song of social action. Documentary Filmmakers Find That an Agenda Helps With Financing 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z "Imagine packing up your car to flee — with your children — and finding every road blocked as you hear air raid sirens in the background?" said Eckstein. Russia-Ukraine war: 'Humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly' 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Where Public Enemy had crafted soundscapes that were echoes of the dysfunctional housing projects, NWA’s record is marbled with real gunshots, sirens and screams. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The initial instrumental sounds were subdued and mysterious, with echoes of distant whirling sirens, rustling winds, scattered plunks and volleys of pitches. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z One piece from 1934, the sprawling exhibit's best, features a huge construction of Hollywood siren Mae West's face, with bright yellow hair, and bright red lips transformed into a couch. 'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet 2012-11-20T14:36:08Z Shah understands that life is a stream of disappointment and agony; her un-chipper oeuvre an elixir of haunted music-hall piano and drowning siren calls. Sweet Baboo, Nelly, Nadine Shah: this week's new tracks 2013-04-15T05:00:00Z Beginning in April of last year, he played “Amazing Grace” from his second-floor balcony in Ditmas Park every evening at 5 sharp — a soothing change from the constant wail of sirens then. The Music Scene in This Brooklyn Neighborhood Is Here to Stay 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Unlike the female protagonists in “Insurrections,” the women in this book are primarily sirens, seducing the men of Cross River either to self-discovery or to their drowning deaths. First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Perched on a bench beside a Midtown businessperson or hopping on the curb alongside a SoHo shopper, the small brown bird is as ubiquitous in New York City as the sound of sirens. National YoungArts Foundation’s new animated short takes flight with help from KAWS and Shepard Fairey 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The words are spoken quietly, but they rend the air like a siren. Review: ‘The Death of the Last Black Man,’ a Nightmare Hypnotically Retold 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z If you accept this argument, it can just seem a bit odd that, judging by the show, what they want to do is play the part of a highly decorative soft-core siren for a day. Pinups in the Post-Weinstein World 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Guests trooped down a staircase covered in industrial gray carpet against the soundtrack of air raid sirens, to see Demna Gvasalia, the Georgian fox in the iconoclastic Vetements henhouse of fashion, unveil his Balenciaga. Balenciaga’s New Balance 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z You kind of expect the whoop of a siren or maybe the loss of electrical power. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Premiere: No Seriously, Call Saul 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Heroically, on my most recent visit, I resisted the siren call of Sydney Harbor and the beaches. Seeing Sydney, beyond beaches and barbecue 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z But she chose to put the melody over “this fat beat with this fat bass,” adding sirens, synths and strings, which “makes me feel powerful in my pain,” she said. Raye, Tired of Music’s Waiting Game, Releases an Album at Last 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Motorists on the freeway recognized the procession; no sirens were necessary. Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Darling Buds Of May suggests that the best band of all time in the world ever seems to involve championing nonsense lyrics about birthdays and sirens and the idea that competing guitar solos are pleasant. This week's new singles 2011-02-26T00:07:48Z That means exchanges between lawyers and witnesses are sometimes drowned out by the wail of sirens from passing police cars, firetrucks and ambulances. Week 1 of Weinstein trial: Vile allegations, X-rated gifts 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In the play’s quieter moments, one could hear sirens blaring from the street, thunder from above and the jingly silver jewelry worn by Nur Khan, a downtown nightclub owner, who also attended the premiere. Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Show Their Sensitive Sides 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z They exhibited at the same fairs as Jean Mayodon, who mixed Persian and Hindu metallic motifs to produce what the Kelly exhibition catalog describes as “centaurs, sirens, mermaids, gods, nudes and stylized animals.” Over There: Daughters of Liberty 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The composer was intrigued that the sirens of Circe, unlike other temptresses, lured sailors to their deaths through song. Review: For This Young Chorus, It’s Never Too Early for Six World Premieres 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z They blend with the real-world sounds of traffic on the street below, building construction, sirens and, nearby, ringing cellphones, creating a subtly expansive feeling of spaciousness. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z The addition of mythic beasts, of giants and sorcerers and sirens signing sailors to their doom, encourages fleeting feelings of awe. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Dowdy, overweight, earnest Grace, a doctoral student in Women's Studies, is summoned by her retired B-movie siren of a great-aunt to spend a transformative summer as her companion in great-auntie's spectacular Pebble Beach mansion. Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z His electricity, gas and internet are still running, even as explosions and air raid sirens grow increasingly common. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes, Green said, the Ukrainian side had to delay scheduled calls at the last minute “because an air raid siren had gone off,” or cancel meetings entirely because of power cuts. How Liverpool Put on a Song Contest for Ukraine 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Turned loose on the project, Mr. Lindbergh, renowned for his alternately cinematic and naturalistic portraits of models and screen sirens, aimed to demonstrate that there is beauty in age and, more than that, audacity. Pirelli’s Reality Check: Portraying Beauty at Any Age 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z We leaned over the treehouse railing, quietly scanning through the clouds to find the source of the distant siren call. Treehouses on top of the world: Zip-lining to lodgings in Laos 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Heralded by wailing sirens and stretching for blocks, the entourage sliced through the streets of San Diego like a motorcade for visiting royalty. At Comic-Con, managing 'Game of Thrones' cast is an epic in itself 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z But later she’s not so sure: “Better run when you hear the sirens coming,” she advises. The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z At 10 p.m. each night, a siren sounds to signal curfew; polar-bear patrol is done for the day and it is no longer safe to be out and about. In the polar-bear capital of the world, a dream is realized 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z No one in the ensemble is d**kmatized, docile or a siren. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The chorus issued the divine edict in a long series of rising, otherworldly glissandos that also call to mind a very specific and worldly sound: the wailing of emergency sirens. Review: A Composer Reconstructs Painful Family Stories 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z At the other end of the emotional spectrum, the flashing lights reappeared to emphasize the police sirens on the optimistic “Hope.” Review | Blood Orange wows sold-out crowd at Lincoln Theatre 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Gone are the days of constricting personas—the hypersexual siren or the straight-edge lyricist—to adhere to narrow views of what could make a black woman marketable. Is Rap Finally Ready To Embrace Its Women? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z This last aspect of siren biology is a challenge for Kline’s lab. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Jama wants the arts to provide a healthy alternative for the young to chewing khat or worse, following the siren call of al-Shabaab, the Islamist militants in Somalia. Somaliland's Hargeisa book festival celebrates fifth year 2012-07-16T17:23:59Z They had been rushing to seek shelter after the air-raid sirens had sounded, when a woman fell at the bottom of the set of stairs that led down to the station from the street. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z For those of us addicted to danger, we can find in our journeys that we are sailor and siren both. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Indeed, for some, the siren song of a challenging sabbatical is habit forming. Summer Vacation? Nah, I’m Taking a Creative Hiatus 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Focusing on the dancier side of her catalogue, Richard was a siren over propulsive grooves, synthesized melodies and waves of bass. Dawn Richard continues the part at the fringes of electronic R&B at DC9 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Guards armed with semiautomatic rifles stood by as a bus rolled out of a loading dock with lights flashing and sirens blaring. Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women in New York 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z It was harder to hear the notes in the heart of Times Square, where Aaron George's rendition of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" was nearly drowned out by honking taxis and a fire truck siren. Bach and beyond: NYers plunk on public pianos 2010-06-21T18:33:00Z Leggings are not the sole province of the siren female was the idea. It’s Possible Leggings Are the Future. Deal With It. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It started very well: the sheer terror in the household as air raid sirens resound following Donald Trump’s decision to launch a nuclear bomb rang terrifyingly true. Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z All that noise strangles the twin melodies that make up the Candyman character's siren song: seduction and legacy. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Song after song is an emptying of the emotional arsenal over digitized screeches and sirens. Perspective | As the world shrivels in front of our eyes, all we can do is scream 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Wailing sirens and a haunting loop of Vera Lynn's voice ricochet around the theatre, while a screen shows apocalyptic newsreel of burning buildings. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-10T17:26:00Z Who, indeed, when you can have a siren in German Expressionist eyebrows and madcap designer outfits, crooning to propulsive backing tracks? Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z And, most importantly, who on earth was this enigmatic siren? Ethereal girl 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z Stormy, dissonant and elemental, the orchestral “Amériques” shows Varèse’s debt to Debussy and Stravinsky, as well as his quick absorption of his adopted home in its steely contours, clattering percussion and wailing sirens. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z “Laxed” was also an arrival on the world stage for siren jams — an emergent scene filled with producers specializing in music suited for blasting through sirens attached to the front of cars and bicycles. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z No woman likes being barged and manhandled, particularly former movie sirens, and the glare she gave me in that moment made my blood run cold. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z Opening with a hushed murmur of bass drums, gongs and hand-cranked sirens, the music picks up momentum in its ninth measure when a military snare drum raps a jagged tattoo, bongos burbling alongside. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z It begins "Hear the sirens down the street / Kids get light on their feet". Jake Bugg: 'I have to pinch myself' 2012-10-15T07:12:17Z The film siren belongs as much to Hollywood as to Swansea. The Tonys' battle for Broadway 2010-06-14T21:00:00Z But the filmmakers are determined to sound a wake-up siren, and they blast it here with extra strength. Review: ‘Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story’ Exposes a Wildlife Massacre 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Which siren will the hip-hop star rap to in an open field next time? Today's must-see viral videos 2011-06-27T18:09:00Z When the novel opens, Emily is in 11th grade, cooling her heels in the school cafeteria with a friend, when sirens sound and a teacher comes into the room. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian President Emmanuel Macron celebrated Moreau for going beyond earlier roles as a screen siren to embrace other genres, starring in comedies and action films. Award-winning French actress Jeanne Moreau dies at 89 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But he listened primarily to siren jams on YouTube, where a few channels specialize in posting the latest ones, all produced and released independently. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The explosions, screams and sirens of September 11 were enough noise to provide a fitting soundtrack for death. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z At one point, as a siren sounded in the distance, he paused and shot the audience a look as if to say, “I’ll wait.” At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z But while it’s easy to be distracted by the siren call of Influencer culture — Money for just being you! The Rise and (Maybe) Fall of Influencers 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z It doesn’t matter when the ominous rumble of traffic or inevitable siren punctuates the performance; in Shakespeare’s tragedy, the intrusion always seems intentional and perfectly timed. Review: A ‘Macbeth’ at Ease in the Dark and Noisy City 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z There are sirens, unison vocals that make the words sound like a chant, and the impression given is of a brand new cult announcing themselves in no uncertain terms. New band of the day - Young Fathers (No 1,404) 2012-11-27T16:48:09Z Gradually the intensity level grew, with fitful drum riffs, gongs and wailing sirens. Music Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Inuksuit’ at Ojai Music Festival 2012-06-08T21:08:54Z It just becomes that much harder to bemoan the hardship of wearing a mask in a supermarket when you think of your forebears going to bed each night for a year, waiting for the sirens. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z On the second monitor, Mr. Fast himself appeared, mimicking, with pitch-perfect accuracy, not only the film’s dialogue but also its audio effects, from fists slamming into flesh to sirens wailing and guns going off. 2010-01-08T04:33:00Z “Tracks,” a high-mileage, low-energy story about an Australian woman, her trusty dog, four charming camels and the siren call of adventure, comes coated in a layer of sand. Mia Wasikowska Plays Robyn Davidson in ‘Tracks’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Witches, sirens, shrews and masqueraders all depict female power as supernaturally given or surreptitiously used. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Living near Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, where her father is a surgeon, provides Baker with a live feed of blaring ambulance sirens in addition to blasts from Israeli air strikes and shelling attacks. Gaza teen's war tweets make her a social media sensation 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z In my neighborhood, sounds of nature were sirens and gunshots. My city kid summer camp nightmare 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Here, the wail of a saxophone cut through the space like a siren while Ms. Bullock’s voice turned chilly and hard. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z When you wake up every day to stolen cars and police sirens, that’s different from Beverly Hills. Tony nominee Savion Glover: Go ahead, call me a Hoofer 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “They had these streamers and sirens and rockets that went ‘Aaooooooowww! Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z When a siren blared in the distance, he did not ignore it. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z When Wick faces off against challengers at the Arc de Triomphe in “Chapter 4,” there are no gendarmes, no blaring sirens or screaming bystanders to interrupt the kinetic flow. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z What she knows is that it was in the wake of last fall’s U.S. presidential election — and her reaction to the work’s dissonant piano chords and siren clarinet notes was immediate. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps you’re a little unclear as to who the sirens were. ‘Here Be Sirens,’ a Little Philosophy Included 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Broad beans bankrupt me; I try to veer away from the stall before I hear their siren cry. The Envies of Eating in Springtime 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Odysseus-like, I lashed my hands to the mast of a Kia Optima for a week this spring while my family crew and I motored around the island’s perimeter, ignoring Waikiki’s siren song. Waikiki Beach is only two miles of Oahu. The rest is well worth checking out. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Ava’s siren call summons Dwight there, imploring him to take his revenge on her body: “Make me hurt like I hurt you.” REVIEW: Eva Green Is the Dame to Kill For in Sin City 2 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Oh yes, this business of how the sirens lost their wings. ‘Here Be Sirens,’ a Little Philosophy Included 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The fence’s fragmentation and barricading of vital pieces of habitat are disastrous for many creatures, Kline says, the siren among them. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z He wailed like a siren and screamed for his life. Little Richard Wasn’t Conceited. He Was Underappreciated. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The sirens began to blare more frequently outside my window, and I urged myself to accept the strange terms of our relationship so that it wouldn’t have to end. When It’s Either Your Ex, or Nobody, for Months 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z She blended two different texts to craft the libretto: a Homeric siren song and a portion of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Even now, whenever I read one of those tragic stories in the local paper, I hear a faint siren’s call, as if an inevitable fate is beckoning to me. Suicide isn’t painless 2012-08-24T19:30:00Z It already is a place where people roll their eyes at ambulance sirens, mouthing “another OD”. With drugs, there are no good choices, only less awful ones 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I realized that, other than the sirens, things were actually pretty quiet at this time of night. The indulgent joy of (very late night) cooking 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z I heard the sirens, getting closer, and knew they were for me. I was impaled by a fence 2012-09-05T23:00:00Z Lanier has said police policy would not generally permit celebrities to be escorted at a high speed with flashing lights and sirens. DC report: Charlie Sheen police escort 'routine' 2011-07-14T11:49:10Z The interview obliviously takes place in the middle of Times Square with madness all around: police sirens, gunshots, traffic screeching, humans shouting. Walking Up Lexington Avenue with Bob and Ray 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Taking the stage, fists up, to the sound of a siren, Chuck D announces that Mr. Trump was just formally nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. Prophets of Rage Bring Their Anger to the Republican Convention 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z There are blazing billboards, screaming sirens, crushing crowds. Gambling on O’Neill: Forest Whitaker Makes His Broadway Debut in ‘Hughie’ 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z But breakfast was my siren call — especially when it involved eggs or bacon, or better yet, both, nestled between two pieces of toast, an English muffin or a bagel. This doll-size pan is the one kitchen item I can’t do without 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z No wonder a new generation of restless New Yorkers is starting to heed the Los Angeles siren call, and not just aspiring actor-waiters, as in years past. Los Angeles and Its Booming Creative Class Lures New Yorkers 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The Côte d’Azur and its sunlight, reliably bright almost 300 days a year, has long been a siren for artists and writers — and train passengers — like Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Graham Greene. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The genesis of her policy was her own vulnerability to the siren call of media. Cultural Studies: Hurricane Sandy Reveals a Life Unplugged 2012-11-09T23:13:30Z But in this instance, the siren is quite real. 'Mermaids' find raison d'etre in Brazil 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Their obvious differences — Ms. Galás, the gloomy siren; Ms. Monk, winsome and whimsical — belie similarities: a shared edge of anxiety, sly humor and an ultimately reassuring grounding in the body and its processes. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Turning her voice into a soft, mellifluous siren, she extends notes up and down an octave. Music Review: Sue Raney at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-14T01:00:46Z "Every time I hear a siren, I run to hide at the nearest subway station," she said. Russia-Ukraine war: 'Humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly' 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z My boy, who appeared not to notice other toddlers passing in buggies, but was mesmerised by carpet fluff, sirens, the moon. My autistic son made me see the season anew – a Christmas tree is not a fish! 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Whenever their rehearsals for the Eurovision Song Contest were interrupted by air raid sirens, the Ukrainian pop duo Tvorchi would race to the safety of underground bunkers, sometimes wearing their matching stage outfits. Undaunted by Air Raids, a Ukrainian Duo Gets Ready for Eurovision 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Three days after the marathon bombing, when the suspects were identified and came out of hiding, armed and murderous, my family heard the sirens and helicopters. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z Or, maybe your mind goes to classic fiction and fables, in which mermaids are portrayed as treacherous sirens, hunting and preying on touch-starved sailors at sea. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But sound mixing, from a gunshot to a distant siren, was the most exacting and unforgiving. Indie writer-director of post-9/11 thriller 'Retina' a multitasking whiz 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Before “Daisy Jones,” there was “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” Reid’s 2017 novel about a 1960s screen siren who steamrolls her way through high-profile marriages but hides her greatest love, for a woman. Her Books Show the Lifestyles of the Fictional and Famous. She’s Poised for Some Fame of Her Own. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Wrapped up warmly with layers of clothing, gloves, hats and goggles, the runners await the blasting siren marking the start of the race before heading off onto the barren track. Runners brave snow, ice and cold for Antarctic Ice Marathon 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Furthermore, the thing that most separates Lady Gaga from the bubblegum sirens of a decade ago is that her capacity for seduction has been neutered, recontextualized. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z Iowa gave me time to write and grow, both in the classroom and outside it amid the tornado sirens and -28 wind chill. “Girls” nails the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Why my MFA experience was exactly like Hannah Horvath’s 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z While the sirens in “The Lure” exercise and experience an attraction that is sometimes fatal, their adventures are chronicled in a spirit that is more fatalistic than furious. Review: In ‘The Lure,’ Two Mermaids Walk Into a Strip Club (Things Get Weirder) 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Wertheimer, an Austrian painter who once had a significant international reputation, may have painted the young Valadon as a supple siren. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Helicopters, radios, sirens and birdsong were competing to be heard in the Manhattan air. Review: In Central Park, ‘The Tempest’ Sings Farewell to Magic 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z The rhythmic pulse of the propellers and the steady wash of the waves against the steel hull were siren songs beckoning. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z How could “Sunday Clothes” be other than a siren call? How a Jerry Herman Song Called a Future Critic to New York 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Against a soundtrack of near-constant siren wails and infant squalls, we watch an increasingly frail Uxbal set his affairs in order before succumbing to his disease as well as to his boisterous city's final embrace. 'Biutiful': Melodrama and tension get top billing 2011-01-26T20:23:02Z A police siren wails nearby, and everyone scatters. Peaceful protesters get lost in action-packed coverage 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z He was able to resist the siren call of social media — “Facebook made me too depressed, and Instagram wasted too much of my time” — and doesn’t plumb its more disturbing corners. From a Suicide Expert, an Unflinching Guide to Saving Lives 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Kline suspects that the sirens of the Texas borderland are an entirely new species. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z For the ritual event this year, a new siren song will be calling to turn the red-carpet jewelry green. Red-Carpet Jewels Go 'Green' in Cannes 2013-05-15T13:37:02Z We hear a new urban soundtrack where traffic is muted and sirens scream through the stillness. ‘I would pay $50 for a 2-minute hug’: True stories of sex starvation during self-quarantine 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It crescendos into sirens and the clang of freight trains. Piano lessons with a side of philosophical sparring 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Adrián Sandí, a brilliantly cool yet tender soloist, produced a burnt, hazy siren near the end, then utter gentleness, before a wailing, emphatic coda. Review: Diving Deep Into Staud’s Kaleidoscopic Music 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z But he gets away from the pop image of Anne as the doomed siren to show her as a resolute, deeply religious woman who deployed her sexual power to become a "conspirator for Christ". Anne Boleyn 2010-07-29T20:29:00Z As an actress, she commands something like the stylized expressions of silent-film-era sirens. Review: Two Pinch-Hitters, Reveling in ‘Carmen’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Over time, the looping lines overlap like multiple ambulance sirens mixing in traffic-stilled streets. A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Refurbished World War II air raid sirens at three outdoor sites are key to the action. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Some saw that number as a positive sign, bringing attention to Vietnamese Americans' potential voting impact, but sirens went off in my head. Living with the legacy of my Trump-voting Vietnamese relatives 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z It was a little chilling to hear the siren. In Paris, a Music Hall Built for Unity Offers a Stirring First Act 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Even at its most rigid, however, it allows the siren song of groupthink to soar. | 'The Wave': The Siren Song of Groupthink 2011-05-26T23:10:14Z I remember the sound of a siren, an ambulance; I heard new voices, someone saying that my pulse was weak. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “As sirens blare outside my Brooklyn window and the headlines grow more apocalyptic by the day, I might start working my way through King’s backlist. He’s good company in the dark.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The series presents it as a siren song inside of which Rose, at least, is ready to exist completely. Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Through most of this album, she’s in lock step with the production, which is vivid, full of vibrating bass and sirens and ghostly aftereffects. Critic’s Notebook: Ciara, Not Quite at the Center of Her Newest Album 2013-07-10T20:25:20Z He hears a siren and realizes that he’s left his post, and he sees an enemy bomber far overhead. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Mehta recalled a Tel Aviv performance during the height of a war with Gaza’s Hamas militant group, where rocket sirens forced him to pause the concert. Young maestro takes baton as Israel Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta ends 50-year tenure 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Siren” likewise toys with the drama of attraction and repulsion: When the siren wails, do you dive toward it, or run away? In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In her first novel, “My Old Sweetheart,” published in 1982, she assigned to a character named Lily many of the circumstances that made her the unsettling siren of a writer she is. From Hollywood ‘Pretty Girl’ to Empowered Novelist 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The nights are noisy, all shouts and sirens. Constance by Patrick McGrath – review 2013-05-18T12:59:01Z "As we hit the gate sirens just went off, there was police everywhere," he puts his hands in the air and raises his voice to a squeak. Marlon James' views of a crime in 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z They act as sirens over their radio system, drawing soldiers to their deaths at sea. ‘Mayday’ Review: Misandry Is the Most Dangerous Game 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Later in the episode – according to a clip seen by the Associated Press – Julia becomes distressed when a siren goes off. Sesame Street introduces muppet with autism to teach children about disorder 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z We always hear more than we see: footsteps upstairs or outside; sirens and crashes in the night; whispering voices and humming machines. Movie Review: ‘Neighboring Sounds,’ Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012-08-23T22:30:30Z Robbins described the West’s attraction as an escape from the daily grind, and how Grey had bottled the area’s siren song in “The Call of the Canyon.” In Sedona, Ariz., biking a landscape that embodies the romance of the American West 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He, or a man like him at least, might find himself heeding the siren call of Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant demagogy, against his better instincts. Onstage, the Pain Behind the Political Posturing 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z He weaves a soundscape comprising little original music but an atonal symphony of police sirens, gunfire and bomb blasts. Miss Bala: Beauty and the Beasts in a Mexican Drug War 2012-01-19T19:15:02Z Consider the Bulbophyllum, whose swallowtail petals suggest a mysterious and sultry dancer, though she is more of a siren, drawing you close to a scent that is beyond foul. Chase away the winter blues at the Hirshhorn’s orchid show 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z And when there was nothing left to watch, the siren call of former classmates and past co-workers and so-and-so from that one conference five years ago proved too irresistible to ignore. Leaving Facebook? Easier said than done. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z We sit outside at a bar on Broadway, close to Lincoln Center, and listen to the traffic rumble and the occasional siren wail. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z At the end of the evening, he was leaving the house when the sirens began their mournful warning. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z “He played it hot, with screaming single-note sustains and shuddering vibrato, a siren call to a legion of aspiring guitar heroes.” Lonnie Mack, Singer and Guitarist Who Pioneered Blues-Rock, Dies at 74 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The accidental and unintentional sounds of everyday life, from coughs to faraway sirens to the hum of an air conditioner, become the piece itself. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z At another, he grilled the audience about a siren audible through the theater walls — what kind of siren was it? — and made a wisecrack about city crime. Review | Comedian Daniel Kitson rants about the joy — and tyranny — of stuff 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z He describes the “sucking sound” of modern French police sirens, the “snickering” of certain neon signs, the melodious “parping of automobiles.” Books of the Times: ?Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris,? by Graham Robb 2010-04-27T21:30:00Z Decide for yourself when the opinion-splitting retro siren plays Latitude and Isle Of Wight. Why this festival season will be massive 2012-05-25T23:30:00Z She screamed like the sirens we hear all day. Too poor for pop culture 2014-02-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Lewis, who has boasted in the past of an affair with the legendary siren, went silent when pressed. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Every day at noon, a siren from Callicoon’s fire station sounds in the distance. A Home That Makes Time Travelers of Its Inhabitants 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z None of us is immune to the siren call of our gadgets, or to the nebulous sense of voluntarily hurtling toward some unforeseen future that is very bad. The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Am I wrong to think if five white women had been stripped, broken, the sirens would wail until someone was named? A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The record features taped, spoken-word recordings taken from the bunker and the hotel and the sounds of Hanoi, including air-raid sirens and dropping bombs. AP Interview: Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam 2013-04-10T06:16:05Z Possible gunfire and explosions, along with the intermittent wailing of sirens, can be heard throughout. Critic?s Notebook: A Provocateur Steals Cannes Spotlight 2011-05-19T21:38:11Z Toward the beginning of the book, you say that if you don’t tell this story “there’s the chance I’ll forget to fear my sirens.” Would you call this a recovery memoir? Finding out you have a hole in your heart: Joshua Mohr on his memoir 'Sirens' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z So were street artist Calder Greenwood and the public-art organization Now Art L.A., which produced wild art installations at the siren sites conjuring the destruction of the alien invasion, as well as the aliens themselves. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z A police escort followed and the peal of an ambulance siren erupted somewhere in the distance. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Todd answered by placing the crusty needle on side one, track one, and cranking it: “I Will Follow” screamed from the tattered speakers like an air-raid siren. Saved by Christian rock 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Instead they were both siren and albatross, marking Mr. Ball as simultaneously individual and an agent of someone else’s desires. Bow Ties and Statement Sneakers at the N.B.A. Draft 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z A sailor submitting to sirens’ song fails to embrace any mermaids but achieves carnal joy with a number of adorably ugly walruses. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z He remembers the sirens from those early days, he said; the current invasion is not his first. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Minutes later, police sirens are wailing and he’s racing down the street. Movie Review: ‘The Woman in the Fifth,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2012-06-14T22:16:07Z Felisberto, a teenager in Queens whose boyfriend has just died, is haunted by the sirens in his nightmares. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z It includes using noise deterrents such as sirens to lethal removal. Olympic National Park takes on mountain goats 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z After Cuma, the Greeks moved down the shore to Naples and called this settlement Parthenope, after the siren who tried to lure Odysseus to the rocks. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z The siren song for poor people everywhere: “Let them watch cable!” We’ve found the worst hot take on defunding PBS: “Watch cable instead!” 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It includes a handful of characters, all in the shadow of the mysterious Johanna, who may be a muse, lover, siren, ghost, devil – if she even exists at all except in the narrator’s dreams. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z Christmas trees and lights still decorated surrounding houses, and neighbors, enjoying the holiday, were moving slowly or sleeping in when the trucks arrived, sirens blaring. “And everybody cried”: The callous murder of the Harvey family and the song it inspired 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z As sirens blare outside my Brooklyn window and the headlines grow more apocalyptic by the day, I might start working my way through King’s backlist. Can’t Sleep? Let Stephen King Keep You Company 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z In any case he was a teacher at Friends Seminary in Manhattan when he first heard the bath toys’ siren song. Books of The Times: The Siren Song of the Bath Toy 2011-02-20T22:03:18Z The village also harbors numerous hotels, cheerily painted townhomes and a pebble courtyard ringed by seductive restaurants, sirens to the budget-unconscious traveler. A St. Martin vacation reminds parents they don’t really want to get away from kids 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z On some days, when we’ve been outside in the weird quiet and heard only birds and sirens, the line between fantasy and reality feels pretty blurred. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The siren is Elizabeth Finch, a teacher of adult education courses in London two decades ago. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Though the flashing sirens of a police car could make any driver nervous, one Georgia woman’s unexpected traffic stop had a happy ending: a marriage proposal. Georgia police officer pulls over girlfriend to propose 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z The title track offers siren whispers that echo as though beckoning from within a well. After grief, Bebel Gilberto recovers her zen with new album 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Hearing the cigarettes’ siren call, the matches crawl from their box like zombies from a crypt, sliding toward their inevitable doom. | 'Nine Nation Animation': Worldwide Viewpoints With an Animated Edge 2010-09-28T23:10:00Z Its siren call is just too hard to resist. Review: ‘Children of the New World’ Sees a Future of Bespoke Memories and More 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z She has refused to be typecast as a siren or a femme fatale and has struggled to find roles that attract her. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z As she went into labor, air-raid sirens sounded repeatedly, and at one point they were rushed from the maternity ward to the basement of the hospital. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z The program concludes with Varèse’s sonically assaultive “Amériques,” completed in 1921 and still a shocker with its police sirens and lion’s roar. Michael Tilson Thomas?s American Mavericks 2012-02-24T20:12:23Z Her red hair sculpted into sleek flames, Ms. Stone gives us a Sally who’s a siren in more ways than one. Emma Stone Takes Over in ‘Cabaret’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Letters are leaky in all sorts of ways — the baby wakes from the nap and cries; the air-raid siren sounds; the social mores and psychodynamics of other eras filter in. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The song warps and slows down — like tape manipulation, like digital processing, like memories of a life-changing moment — with echoey reggae guitars and looming siren tones. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Snyder, who starred in the ill-fated Broadway musical “Cry-Baby,” also leads a glowing rendition of “Restless Heart,” a surging tribute to the siren song of the sea. 2010-02-06T06:35:00Z I couldn’t turn off the livestreams of the Kyiv night sky, lit up with white flashes, deranged by baying sirens and crackling shells. In Paris Then, in Kyiv Now, Visions of Freedom and Bravery 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z This year, there were performances that included a disheveled siren crooning to imaginary seamen and a queen death-dropping to the Super Mario theme song. Bushwig Grows Up 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The Sweet "haven't got a clue what to do" about the evil Buster's cunning disguise in their classic paranoid stompalong Blockbuster, but judging by the wailing sirens, they've alerted the relevant authorities. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z He and his companions flee from a cyclops, sirens and the Ku Klux Klan, making some great music along the way. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Krypton’ and ‘The X-Files’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s hard for a young chef to resist the siren call of kimchi these days, and Sharpe, 33, is no exception. After Peacock Room review: Edible art emerges in a small Georgetown space 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z “Bololo Haha” is almost radically spare, a skeletal and punishing meditation replete with gun shots, revving motorcycle engines, ambulance sirens and the hoarse barking of one of the scene’s current stars, MC Bin Laden. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Sara Evans said you won't see her in the sweeping dresses preferred by many of her sister sirens on the red carpet. Stars lured by ACMs, Vegas _ and gambling 2011-04-04T01:46:11Z He is the siren singing out to the show’s artists: Give up! 'Girls' Recap: The Line Between Hannah Horvath and Lena Dunham Gets Blurry 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z If you live in an urban environment, no one needs to hear the siren outside your window. How to work from home like a boss in case coronavirus forces you to 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “My siren jam is somehow the most known ever now,” Jawsh said, incredulously. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Did he really make 147 recordings on New York’s streets and not run into a single siren? Music Review: Kevin James and [kaj] Take John Cage as Inspiration 2012-08-22T22:21:19Z I think I heard a police siren once in my time here, and I'm starting to think someone stole all the taxi's horns. Sounding off: London v New York 2013-05-05T12:32:00Z For instance, if you don’t hear well, you may need multiple loud sirens. What to consider when shopping for a home security system 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z But when the death voice wails like an air raid siren, perspective falls victim to the noise. My terrifying chemical storms 2014-01-12T21:00:00Z He has a "main residence" in Switzerland, a winery in Provence and a 16-year-old daughter – from his marriage to 1980s screen siren Diane Lane – in Los Angeles. How Christophe Lambert went from action flops to arthouse acclaim 2010-06-17T21:30:00Z On the other hand, there are the early sirens of spring, like nettles and fiddlehead ferns. Vegetable inspiration from the West Coast doesn’t always mean California 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z As the vehicle arrived with its siren blaring outside the treatment facility, the doors opened for the two, who immediately took flight, running down the street, escaping their earlier fate of a Liberian jailhouse. Documenting with dignity in the Ebola zone And no matter how much rouge and mascara Albin applies, the dumpy, jowly chanteuse he becomes onstage will never resemble the screen siren of his mind’s eye. | 'La Cage aux Folles': Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge on Broadway 2010-04-19T04:59:00Z Most cuts are heralded by pealing sirens and end with explosions; in between they are packed with gun sounds, cascades of rattling, staccato beats and producer Lex Luger's muscular, brutalist fanfares. Waka Flocka Flame – review 2012-12-05T13:20:19Z But lately, it’s the ugly new music of the everyday — the dull roar of circling helicopters, the peal of sirens, the echo of explosions. Caught between silence and clamor, these musicians find connection in birdsong 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z I Am the Narrator may dash busily through a string of sonic cliches – police sirens and the like – but its blend of warped fairytale strings, dub bass and antic Dr Dre swagger persuades the ear. Best albums of 2012: 20–11 2012-11-28T09:00:00Z In the movie’s striking opening sequence, this otherworldly siren first appears as a speck of light that expands into a disc, which forms into an unblinking eye. Movie Review: Scarlett Johansson as a Deadly Alien in ‘Under the Skin’ 2014-04-03T22:28:04Z One woman, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, remains racked with fear when she hears an emergency siren on the Sabbath. A club no one wants to join: How Pittsburgh is reaching out to comfort El Paso and Dayton 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The young actress resisted the persistent siren call of the Disney Channel. Jurnee Smollett: ‘The Past Few Years Have Been Heartbreaking’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z We city dwellers, for all that we might cherish the sound of police sirens and hard-braking buses, are just so much flotsam and jetsam. We long for a sense of belonging that village life offers 2013-03-31T00:06:27Z Or maybe it’s that nobody can tell the difference between a mermaid and a siren. The Drag Queen Overshares, but the Guru Has Something to Hide 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith’s home is in Harlem, where the relentless sounds of sirens still haven’t kept the streets from filling with people who don’t observe social distancing guidelines. Together Apart? How About Totally Losing It? 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Watching her measured, staccato steps toward the hillside where the audience sat, I became hyper-aware of sounds punctuating the silence: the rustling of leaves, a distant siren, squawking birds. Review: In This Dance, Death Is Out in the Open 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Because of the powerful siren song whispering in our ears that while the offer was phenomenal, the college making the offer was not. Motherlode Blog: Choosing a Scholarship Over a College Name Brand 2013-04-23T18:22:58Z The interview Radio El Mundo carried that Sunday proved a siren call. Che Guevara's 'betrayer' tells his side of the story after 40 years 2013-07-03T13:53:10Z She hears sirens, either the kind that signify emergency or the kind that lure you to be dashed against the shore. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The most dangerous creature of all is the nymphet, the femme fatale, the siren who will lead a good man to ruin, a common archetype threaded throughout art, music and literature. Review | ‘My Dark Vanessa’ is being described as ‘Lolita’ for the #MeToo era. It’s more than that. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z And along the way, there have also been temptations, including the siren call of a Democratic ad maker, with whom the campaign met but ultimately decided against using. Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Marlohe does enigmatic and sultry with a quiet grace, whether as a duplicitous siren worth James Bond saving in "Skyfall" or in New York with a budding novelist. A promising romance blooms in '5 to 7' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In the essay, Stiazhkina described writing to friends and loved ones after every air raid siren to say, simply, “As of now, we’re alive.” An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Lights and sirens were not on as it pulled away. Ryan Reynolds 'Heartbroken' After Stunt Driver Dies on Set 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Louisahhh's louche vocal is set off by some incredibly satisfying counterpoint melodies, distorted horns going off like sirens and a repeated descent into a deep and compulsive groove. F&M playlist 2011-08-25T20:30:00Z Yet the sirens and shouts of protesters outside, who bedeviled Burberry for the second season in a row, provided an unwelcome reminder that reality waits nearby. London Fashion Week Draws the Queen and the Rabble 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z This is a renaissance nudist camp with its three sultry sirens to Christ's left: "Whoever stops to gaze at this painting," complained one critic, "cannot but feel some stirring of the flesh." Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z “We’re always vulnerable to that siren song, but the music and the dance work together to deliver an earned sentiment of possibility.” A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Others saw her as "a hardened old reprobate", but also a siren whose voice was "compounded of milk and honey". West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z It becomes tiresome, pointing out what a sublime rapper Minaj is, and what a merely effective pop siren. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z A Stillness rips through a dozen genres in four minutes, grabbing acoustic guitars from Mumford and Sons and rave sirens from The Prodigy, before building a pulsing wall of terrifying white noise. The Naked and Famous: Making waves 2013-09-20T06:39:28Z The squad cars, lights flashing and sirens sounding, were joined by several rescue vehicles and more than 30 vehicles of friends, neighbors and strangers. A 90-year-old Chevy Chase man spent months making masks. In return, he got a birthday parade. 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Engine No. 62 was southbound on Halsted with its lights and sirens activated, on its way to a call of nearby, around 6:20 p.m. Alcohol suspected in fire truck crash 2012-02-01T12:36:00Z She slipped easily from blonde bombshell to brunette siren and back again dozens of times. 2009-12-21T16:01:00Z A siren on Thursday morning brings the country to a halt for two minutes to commemorate the six million Jews who perished. Songs give new life to Holocaust victims' poetry 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z A second siren got a pass: “I’ve been funny about that once already!” the comedian muttered. Review | Comedian Daniel Kitson rants about the joy — and tyranny — of stuff 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z On YouTube, you can find clips of young people wiring up sirens to their cars and bicycles as a meta-speaker system. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The Italian screen siren, 79, won a drawn-out battle over a tax dispute dating back to 1974. Sophia Loren wins 40-year battle with Italian tax man 2013-10-24T12:54:09Z When sirens did sound on April 27, Mrs. Cochrane stepped inside and shut the door. When the Winds Died Down 2011-07-18T15:50:05.740Z "They were really young, as was I," said Wisbrod, the wail of a siren on some Hollywood street far below just barely registering. Hollywood cameraman insists he invented the celebrity selfie in 1981 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Sitting on the press benches, journalists could hear but not see the videos: snoring and sleep-talking, with occasional sirens. ‘I thought, OK, he goes for drunk guys’: friends and flatmates on the Reynhard Sinaga they knew 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Coke: Sleepwalker Such is the siren call of Coke – it pulls a man from bed and across the veldt, past stampedes and snakes and cliffs, just to get some of that magical elixir. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z To the police officer who once trailed me for five blocks, sirens blaring, drowned out by “Buck Bounce” booming from my speakers: See you soon? Riding in Cars With Music 2011-07-14T22:20:24Z Outside the open window, the killer known as Son of Sam terrorizes the dusty streets, where brawls and sirens only intensify June’s paranoia. ‘The Wolf Hour’ Review: Panic in the City 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z On “Rank Stranger,” the Albert Brumley-penned gospel standard that is among the Stanleys’ most beloved performances, that voice blasts like a siren of alienated misery and end-times devastation. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z She also let the kids sit in her car and play with the siren while their mother fetched them some drinks. Kindhearted police officer buys stranded family Taco Bell 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The march builds, at first amiably, then ominously, then hellishly as a ferocious clamor builds around it with, seemingly, sirens in every direction. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z The two huddled next to a toilet, holding their breath as police sirens wailed by. First love on the front lines: Coming of age in the Hong Kong protests 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Sing a low note from the depths of your diaphragm and siren up, higher and higher, until your chest voice breaks and you have to use your falsetto voice to keep going. How to escape your phone and other life hacks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z While he feels a loyalty to the culture of siren jams, he’s lately started listening to more American hip-hop, and eventually wants to expand his production repertoire beyond siren jams to trap and drill. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Two attackers fled when they heard approaching police sirens, Greer said. 58-year-old man hit with gun during home invasion 2012-04-16T05:28:00Z Vocalists’ cute chirps of the title become screams and moans of it; a passing evocation of a police siren suggests ongoing struggles. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Between floats, sirens wailed as local fireman crammed in buzzing go-carts spun in circles. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z It’s the sort of phenomenon that triggered the usual skepticism from older generations and at least a handful of moral-panic local news reports lamenting that young people were stealing sirens from schools for the purpose. A Teenage Producer With a TikTok Hit Brings New Zealand to the World 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Screen sirens in their shiny paillette-covered loungewear - fashion code word for PJs - and glamorous lame and satin slip gowns dramatically circled the runway. Jacobs' sepia-filtered show wraps Fashion Week 2013-02-15T02:50:10Z Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian When the hospital Getting On slipped on to BBC4 last year, there were no wailing sirens or flashing lights to herald that a major drama was about to unfold. Getting On: deadpan with bedpans 2010-10-18T20:07:00Z Theater critic Charles McNulty, a devoted fan of disco siren Donna Summer, was looking forward to “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” now playing at the La Jolla Playhouse. Essential Arts & Culture: Special Thanksgiving edition, starring Donna Summer, William Kentridge and tattoos 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The roots are in ancient Greece: Bewitching siren lures dazed sailor to his watery death. Courtney didn’t kill Kurt: The twisted misogyny behind suicide conspiracy theories 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In 1967 Gainsbourg became infatuated with the French siren who, while enduring a difficult time in her marriage, agreed to go on a date with him. Serge Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments 2011-02-28T12:10:13Z It begins with sirens, action music, and a cardboard car careening across a cardboard bridge, chased by cardboard cops through an elaborate cardboard metropolis. The Screening Room: “Fire in Cardboard City” 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z As the mother washes clothes in a stream and toasts marshmallows with her husband and children at their campsite, breathy vocals hiss "wrap your arms around me" to a police siren melody. Can you decipher Animal Collective's visual album ODDSAC? 2010-05-10T10:21:00Z True, I'd been on the ambulance when the sirens flared and thousands of New Yorkers perished while my friend was dying of cancer. It’s finally time to reunite with friends. So why do I feel so lonely? 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The percussionists played myriad instruments: drums of all sorts, wood blocks, whistles, cymbals, sirens, maracas, pebbles, gongs and metal sheets to emulate thunder. Music Review: ?Persephassa? by Xenakis, on Central Park Lake 2010-06-22T22:13:00Z They toss a slice of pool noodle inside each one to keep it from fully submerging and drowning any sirens inside. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z But those reviews have been a siren call for people who believe they know how to salvage an irretrievably weird movie, at least for themselves: by doing drugs first. People are seeing ‘Cats’ while high out of their minds. These are their stories. 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z On Mr. Trump, the cap perched incongruously atop a laboriously manufactured image: expensive suit, expensive tie, the face, the hair and then, suddenly, siren red. What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “It’s the only place where the vignerons didn’t hear the siren call of chardonnay,” Pierre de Benoist, who runs the De Villaine estate, told me when I visited him last year. The Aligoté Defense Rests 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Stephanie Muñoz, 27, said she used to ridicule women at the gym with makeup, but that her Vixen workout prep includes a manicure and her favorite Nars red lizard lipstick, a siren red. Twerking Their Way to a Sweaty Workout Nirvana 2014-03-12T23:27:10Z If Nigella is the show's siren in a red dress, Bourdain is its satyr. Nigella Lawson brings her signature style to saucy new food show The Taste 2013-01-23T15:18:00Z Thrusting between mountains, it passes many of the flamboyant castles that inspired Disney and takes in the famous cliff at St Goarshausen, where Loreley’s siren song once brought sailors to grief. 10 of Europe’s most scenic train journeys 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Still, even as he hears the siren call of movies and television, Tropper says long-form fiction will always be his home. Jonathan Tropper offers 'This Is Where I Leave You' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z "I'm a happy survivor," I think she sweetly crooned at one point, before that tantalising sentiment was shattered by a further eruption of white noise, sirens and gunshot sounds. Unsound Adelaide: Tim Hecker; Actress; Hype Williams - review 2013-03-16T02:35:29Z The song imagines being within a siege, thinking about “when the war is over” while watching fires and hearing sirens. Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Under increasing pressure to free him, someone eventually hacked down the door with a crowbar before a police escort whisked him, sirens blaring, to his royal appointment. Wii U – Shigeru Miyamoto gives us a tour of Nintendo's new console 2012-11-23T12:00:00Z And then there are the sirens that keep going off when Alexie’s giving a reading, just at the moments the author finds himself getting emotional. Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Even the glass wall was engineered so you could not hear a siren on 53rd Street. An Immersive Sound Installation at MoMA Introduces the Studio 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The instruments mimic sirens, and dissonances build before an uneasily calm ending that sets the stage for the second movement, an anxiously rhythmic danse macabre, even more fiercely lucid in its encore performance. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Boys watched him closely to see how he did the shotgun volleys, the singing walrus, the siren, the helicopter, the water drips. 'Prairie Home' sound effects man Keith dies at 64 2011-11-01T02:01:04Z Songs to the siren … celebrate World Goth Day. It's World Goth Day and we want your playlist picks 2012-05-22T15:41:42Z Your daughter didn’t resist the siren song of the older teens before, and if we keep punishing her, we will send her right back to them. Perspective | Good kids sometimes lie to their parents. Shame and harsh punishments will only push them away. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The group’s psych-dance mélange of droning sirens, leaden chants and thudding baseline percussion could induce a messy séance. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z And even Columbia residents aren’t immune to the siren call of urban cool. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The X-Patsys’ repertoire eventually grew to encompass standards and blues, performed in a highly dramatic manner halfway between noise rock and German art song, with Sukowa as a commanding siren. Her Specialty Is Bringing Headstrong Women to Life Onscreen 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z |
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