Word: trapping
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...movie entertains no visions of romance or purity. The eaters have nothing beautiful to look back on, having left behind--in the world outside their death-trap--crummy, undistinguished lives. Stripped now of the final vestiges of self-respect, they devote themselves to total self-abasement. (And the women who are their companions in degradation are in every way their moral equals...
Balzac wrote the way some men talk: compulsively, brilliantly, endlessly. In a career of only 21 years he managed to get down on paper all of France in the first half of the 19th century. He understood every nuance of provincial ambition, every deadly trap a great city lays impersonally for the young adventurer and the sick old man alike. Some of his characters' names have become inter changeable with vices- old man Grandet with avarice, Cousin Bette with envy...
...waters of Scotland's Loch Ness have long tantalized Western science buffs. Now the Japanese have moved into the act. In hopes of succeeding where the Westerners have failed, an expedition headed by Japanese Novelist-Politician Ishihara Shintaro has set out to track down, photograph and perhaps even trap the legendary beast. The Japanese are not stinting in their efforts. The vanguard of the $500,000 expedition has already arrived on the scene; soon the hunters will begin using such formidable weaponry as a sonar-equipped minisubmarine and tranquilizing guns...
...students are less likely than pre-meds to fall into the trap of seeking a surrogate for the sorts of activity they will be doing in professional school. Law school admissions usually depend on grade point average and law board scores. Potential lawyers are not expected to take any particular set of courses, which eliminates one source of the tensions pre-meds face; and law school admissions are not as competitive as medical school admissions, which mitigates another source of pressure...
Hunt is not convinced that the discovery of the break-in team at the Democratic National Committee headquarters was an accident; he thinks he smells a trap. "There were just too many fishy things that occurred. What was the [plainclothes] mod squad doing out on the street some two-three hours after they were supposed to be off duty...