Word: deathtraps
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They have charged that in the event of a fire the building, which is not equipped with automatic sprinklers, would become a deathtrap, as prisoners and workers would be unable to leave by elevator or stair, and fire truck ladders could not reach them...
...sixth time in 20 years, the dramatis personae at the New York Times theater department are being shuffled. Come September the curtain will fall on Richard Eder, 46, who in his two years as chief drama critic managed to pan several of Broadway's biggest hits, including Dracula, Deathtrap and Dancin'. His replacement is the paper's Sunday theater scribe Walter Kerr, 66, who joined the Times in 1966 after 15 years at the Herald Tribune, and is the only drama reviewer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism (1978). As head of the newly combined...
...late Pope, killed in a plane crash. The conclave is deadlocked. An Italian prelate offers a radical proposal: elect a monk. Said monk is not your average Trappist. He is a former U.S. Marine colonel who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading his troops out of a deathtrap during the Korean War; a Pulitzer prizewinner for the book he wrote about the experience; a former presidential emissary to the Vatican; and, until his retirement to the monastery, Chief Justice of the United States. Why not Pope...
...Deathtrap. A dandy scalp tingler-literate, amusing, land-mined with scarifying surprises. John Wood is the chief perpetrator, and he juggles mirth and mayhem with superb adroitness...
...Levin, playwright and author (Deathtrap, The Boys from Brazil), on cooking: "I find it very hard to think of putting a lot of effort into something which is going to be gone...