Word: entraps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close study, Butow re-created a Roosevelt talking indiscreetly with his aides about Japanese military threats, the black arts of politics and the sex life of his 1940 Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. Bu tow insists that Roosevelt had no "Machiavellian designs," and that the recorder "was never used to entrap anyone...
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...