Word: trapping
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...creations of nature are more exotic than the flowers that trap insects in order to transfer pollen from their male to their female reproductive organs. Though the workings of these trap flowers were known by Charles Darwin, their intricate mechanisms are only now coming to light...
Modern plant research, writes German Biologist Stefan Vogel in Um-schau, has supplied a sudden flood of knowledge about the behavior of trap flowers. Their blossoms range from one-half inch to two feet in length. They lure insects to their traps by the unfloral smell that their osmophores give off during the "lure phase"; yet even the smells vary-from fecal-like, to cidery, to urine-like, to musky...
...PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoffs sly interpretation of the mating ritual, a saucy prostitute (Diana Sands) runs circles around a stuffy book clerk (Alan Alda). To his horror and the playgoer's amusement, he helps her trap...
...gifted playwright, but as a Negro writer he is edging toward three pitfalls. The first danger is white tolerance, the avid desire of the white masochists to be openly reviled for the indignities and injustices they feel whites have visited upon the Negro. The playwright who falls into the trap of doing the reviling loses his intellectual honesty and ends up practicing prejudice in reverse. Secondly, a playwright cannot afford to fall into his own foaming rage. To translate experience into art, he must achieve the same detachment from his own wounds that a surgeon would show. Finally, he must...
...Strong also doubts the theory that the carbon dioxide known to be present in the atmosphere of Venus must trap sunlight by a "greenhouse effect" and necessarily make the surface too hot for living organisms. The ice crystals in the clouds, he believes, are so highly reflective that they bounce much of the sun's energy back into space before it gets anywhere near the planet's surface. Thus layers of the Venusian atmosphere may be comparatively cool, perhaps as cool as similar layers on the Earth...