Word: entrapping
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There's the Sheridan plot. Joseph Surface (Andrew Olson) has an alliance with the gossip Ms. Sneerwell (Melissa Franklin); the neighborhood thinks they're shacked up, but it's strictly a business relationship formed so that Ms. Sneerwell can entrap Joseph's brother Charles, which in turn would enable Joseph to pursue Charles's sweetheart Maria. And so forth, with old gentlemen, loan sharks, inheritances and marital quarrels all mingling in a rollercoaster plot that just can't be disliked...
...more than the pleasure principle." What these people tend to overlook, points out Charles Schuster, director of the Drug Abuse Research Center at the University of Chicago, is the tremendous psychological risk: "One of cocaine's biggest dangers is that it diverts people from normal pursuits; it can entrap and redirect people's activities into an almost exclusive preoccupation with the drug...
...film is in two acts. In the first, Katerina is a young girl, circa 1958, living in a workers' dormitory. By day she toils in a factory; by night she studies to advance herself, and gets involved with a light-minded roommate's plan to entrap men by pretending to be more worldly than they are. There is a sweet giddiness to this passage, a nostalgic indulgence of youthful silliness-except that it is the women who are trapped. Katerina becomes pregnant and bears the child of the slick television-type who is briefly her lover, but presses...
Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
There are some people more worried about whether the FBI tried to entrap Congressmen than whether Congressmen were susceptible to bribery. Certainly a lot of reputations have been blackened before charges have been presented to a grand jury. Look at NBC's television cameras set up in a Winnebago van near Senator Harrison Williams' door before the FBI even comes to call on him. Who leaked the word to NBC, the New York Times and Long Island's Newsday, and why? A special federal prosecutor has been named to find out, but evidently he is not going...