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Plath's song is a dirge, difficult and painful to listen to, but painfully beautiful as well. In those last feverish months of her life, it's extraordinarily fortunate that someone managed to entrap the white hot sparks that Plath was sending off with such dangerously lavish intensity. Now those sparks have at last been released, and Sylvia Plath can "come across" to her audience as she really intended...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: The White Heat of Plath's Voice | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

HENNIE BERGER, the tough-talking daughter who complies with her mother's scheme to falsely entrap a husband and yet managers to endure, is sympathetically portrayed by Helena Ruoti, who delivers her smart remarks with all the emotion that simmers beneath them. As the wisecracking racketeer who understands that it's all a racket. "Marriage, politics, big business- everybody plays cops and robbers," and who says "Listen, lousy," when he means "I love you," Steven Gilborn's Moe Axelrod grows on you throughout the production. Donald Buka polishes off the role of the fat cat capitalist Uncle Morty as effortlessly...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: I Remember Mama | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

...meeting that he had held before the break-in with Liddy and Hunt. At that meeting the pair asked Colson for help in getting approval for their political intelligence-gathering plans. Investigators believe that by showing the memo to Dean, Colson made a clever attempt to protect himself and entrap Dean in the conspiracy. If asked later why he did not volunteer information about his meeting with Liddy and Hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Seven Charged, a Report and a Briefcase | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...from her knitting and, as I passed, called out in the guttural Spanish that many of the assimilated Aymara speak, "Harina barata, muy barata"--Flour, very cheap. I looked at her and smiled. Sensing a potential customer with mucho dinero, she put down her knitting and tried to entrap me: "Solamente tres pesos por kilo. No puede encontrar mejor"--Only three pesos, you can't find better. I mumbled in my broken Spanish that I was only looking, and turned away before I would see her disappointed look...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

...called Jeb Stuart Magruder to urge prompt consideration of it. Dean, knowing the plan was the Watergate bugging, sent the memo back to Colson, urging its destruction. The prosecutors consider this more evidence that Dean was obstructing justice. Some Ervin committee investigators, however, consider it a Colson move to entrap Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: White House Intrigue: Colson v. Dean | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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