Word: straitjacket
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...Carter Administration has its way, America's intelligence community will seize the recent resurgence of military fervor to wriggle out of unwelcome Congressional and public restraints. Carter paints the effort to clothe intelligence agencies in responsibility as a straitjacket that will hamper our intrepid intelligence-gatherers from carrying out their duties in an era of deepening danger to American security. The president is now pushing not just to limit Congressional oversight of intelligence activities but to legalize and codify a whole range of "acceptable" practices that threaten both domestic civil rights and foreign sovereignty...
...both short-lived and turbulent, for it ultimately imposed unacceptable strictures upon the artist's and writer's creative freedom. As James T. Farrell,' author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and a contributor to the magazine later said, the intellectuals' alliance with Stalinism amounted to an "artist straitjacket...
Will Lebow's Lear writhes in an imaginary straitjacket, frothing with rage, his voice audible even over the amplified thunder and wind of Boston Shakespeare's Horticultural Hall sound system...
...canoe off rocks in Wyoming's Powder River, then runs it aground. He gives a sharp kick to a cooler and stomps on his spanking new backpack. Eccentric behavior, it would appear, but Sheldon Coleman, 77, has an ironclad defense if forest rangers should arrive with a straitjacket: "Is there any reason why the chairman of the board can't test the products...
...chorus stalked the aisles chanting a pitch for patent medicine. The hero was played by no less than three performers-a singer, a dancer and a magician. Before a note was even heard, the magician was hanging by his feet high over the stage, wriggling free of a straitjacket...