Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...develops between Lauren and a client, an English lord who carries some diplomatic post. But the sense of imminent doom that hovers over the narrative is finally realized when it turns out that the people who set Lauren up with Lord Bullbeck wanted to use her as bait to trap the man. Theroux concludes the story with a rush of abductions, escapes, and assassinations more confusing than exciting...
Threw in an aggressive zone-trap defense that surprised the visitors, resulting in 13 Cornell turnovers and nine Harvard steals, and you've got the Crimson's finest performance of the year...
...countless hours of testimony before congressional committees, the Defense Secretary has adamantly refused to be drawn into what he considers the ultimate budgetary trap: volunteering nonessential items. With willful patience, he defends the entire package. Says Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater: "When he gets his mind made up, you just don't change it." Weinberger's admirers defend that strategy as both savvy and proper. "The Congress wants to be able to cut the budget and then say Weinberger said it's O.K.," says Carlucci. "That is a perversion of the process...
...FASCINATING TRAP for intellectuals is that by thinking about sex and fashion, you 'crew yourself up. Modern men and women would like to obliterate the differences that appear to be the cause of sexual competition. Hence the ready acceptance of an androgynous ideal by people who make a living thinking about these things...
...American mood. One of them, says Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, involves the attitude toward work. In the older generation of Americans, says Yankelovich, "you weren't supposed to enjoy your job. Your reward was supposed to come later. In the '60s, work was pitted against leisure, work was the trap your parents were in." Yuppies expect their work to be rewarding, challenging, creative. "There is no moral virtue today attributed to self-denial," says Yankelovich. "Mondale was the personification of the social ethic of self- denial. He is the 1950s. For many of these young people, he came across...