Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lured an anti-Castro force from the Dominican Republic into a trap...
...Houdini bolstered his mounting publicity by breaking out of still more jails. Onstage, he walked through brick walls, even though the walls were set on a carpet and volunteers stood on the carpet's edges to prove that it stayed in place and did not hide a trap door. (There actually was a trap door. When it was opened, the carpet sagged, despite the volunteers, and Houdini inched beneath the wall. This part of the act was hidden from both volunteers and audience by a screen.) He was soldered into a coffin made of galvanized iron and dunked...
...Trap Drums & Businessmen. After studying at M.I.T. and the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he offended a department of meteorology at New York University with the breezy claim that he could forecast more accurately than the local U.S. weatherman. At Minnesota he outraged College of Education colleagues in 1957 by blithely asserting that they had replaced the three Rs with "the three Ts-typing, tap dancing and tomfoolery." Once he thrust his martini glass at Minneapolis Symphony Conductor Antal Dorati and said: "Tony, we can build a machine that can compose music." Retorted Dorati: "Well, then you'd better...
...Rabbit Trap. A fable about a plodding father's effort to hold his son's respect, starring Ernie (Marty) Borgnine, who stands in as much danger as maple syrup of being typecast as lovable...
...into the hills to begin a hot running fight. Five days later, Ventura Simó, freshly decorated and newly promoted to colonel, sat down in Ciudad Trujillo at a government microphone to read a statement that he had been a spy all along, had delivered the rebels into a trap. After the broadcast he appeared at a Foreign Ministry reception to be photographed shaking hands with a dozen hastily invited ambassadors-including the U.S.'s Joseph F. Farland...