Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chauffeur. It began in November 1960. when Penkovsky got fed up with his Moscow job. Seeking "the easy life," Penkovsky said he sent a letter to the U.S. embassy in Moscow, offering his services to the U.S. According to Penkovsky, officials in Washington ignored the offer, fearing a trap. But Penkovsky was determined to work for the West. His chance came at last when he struck up a conversation with Wynne the following month at a Moscow reception for visiting British technicians. Wynne was happy to meet the Russian, he said, because Soviet contacts were useful for his machinery business...
Many of the better designers view the trend with distaste. Concludes Designer Charles Eames: "There is a danger when the better mousetrap is better at catching people than at catching mice. And that's the trap we are finding ourselves in right...
...finally builds a better mouse trap (see MODERN LIVING) had better be ready to pack it in polyethylene, coat it with form-fitting plastic, ship it off in a fiber can, cram it into a tube or sell it in a tab-opening bottle. Otherwise, the world will no longer beat a path to his door. Attention-getting packaging is the U.S. businessman's new preoccupation. Last week in Chicago the American Management Association's 32nd annual packaging exposition drew 440 exhibitors and 35,000 visitors-triple the attendance of four years ago-to pay homage before piles...
...January, 1961, a large crowd of students stationed in the Yard to watch President-elect John Kennedy leave an Overseers meeting in University Hall managed to trap him for about 15 minutes, demanding a speech and upsetting the United States Secret Service a good bit; but it was not until the spring of 1961 that another true riot occurred. The great revolt of that year was occasioned by the changing of diplomas from Latin to English and became, in its three day duration, the famed Latin Diploma Riots...
...same ingredients: the single protagonist, the mysterious adversary, the all-powerful elements." Nolan regards these themes as obsessions, and he is glad to be obsessed. Every artist is bombarded by a chaos of images and clues about what to paint; the obsessions are "in a sense a net to trap these clues...