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...explain, a breach of Soviet security; a libidinous Russian cipher clerk (Daniela Bianchi), who has somehow heard of Bond's charms, informs the British Secret Service that for one night with him she'll do anything-like turn over the latest Soviet cipher machine. Obviously a trap, but Hero Bond steps into it as casually as he steps into his rep silk undershorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...lose her, you see, because she'd rather be an unwed mom than trap a guy into matrimony just because he got her in trouble. Who wants to get married these days when they don't have a meaningful relationship...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Love With the Proper Stranger | 4/7/1964 | See Source »

...Keith, it turns out, charges an outrageous $1.80 a head. At those prices I choose my own entertainment, whisking journalistic integrity out through the trap door to my left. So, instead of this vista-vision gas, we took in Knife in the Water. This fact notwithstanding, I feel qualified to review Charade; qualified through prolonged exposure to its advertisements, through hearsay and deduction, and through time-worn familiarity with its principal players...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Charade | 3/3/1964 | See Source »

...four, with a gaping trap stretched across the front of the green. Other players sensibly hit irons off the tee -purposely playing short of the trap - but Nicklaus pulled out his driver. The ball dropped 6 ft. from the pin - an easy eagle. Waiting on the tee, Bob Rosburg threw up his hands. "What can I do for an encore," he asked, "after a man hits a shot like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: A Hitting Man's Golfer | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...basic Nabataean trick was to throw stone walls across the wadies to delay flash floods. Trapped by the walls, the water sank into the ground, depositing silt that built up fertile soil. To trap even more water, the Naba-taeans built good-sized stone dams across the larger wadies; they cut channels along hilltops to divert water to fields that could use it best. To supply

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Shards of History | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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