Word: boobytrap
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...dropping denouement to the MTV-produced halftime show, Justin Timberlake sang, "I gotta have you naked by the end of this song," reached across Janet Jackson's black leather bustier and exposed--well, yes. But he exposed more than that. What the Super Bowl incident (Nipplegate? Boobytrap? The Tempest in a C Cup?) also revealed was the hypocrisies of the entertainment and sports industries, the commercial culture and even the viewing public...
...Monument, and they all laughed when Joan Baez, 26, hefted her guitar and said, "I would like very much to thank the Daughters of the American Revolution for all the publicity." Joanie really did owe the poor dears of the D.A.R. a vote of thanks-for stumbling over her boobytrap. It seems that Joan had determined as long ago as May that the D.A.R. would refuse permission for her to use its 3,800-seat Convention Hall for a folk-singing peace-in, had quietly arranged with the Interior Department to give her concert at the Washington Monument. Then...
Next night the Germans came. There were three. He asked for water, which they refused. Instead, they took his field jacket, rifled his pockets of cigarets. Then they methodically went to work rigging Private Edwards as a boobytrap. When they went away, they left him lying on an explosive charge and too weak to move...
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