Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEADLY TRAP...
Buried beneath the rubble of what once must have been a plot is a good idea. Two children (Michele Lourie, Patrick Vincent) are trapped in a cavernous old mansion, locked inside an abandoned room by a sinister and anonymous adult captor. A premise like this offers abundant opportunity to explore the fears and phantoms of childhood, perhaps even its pathology, and to investigate the same dark corridors that Richard Hughes probed in his magical novel A High Wind in Jamaica. Surely we might have expected René Clement, the director of Forbidden Games, to take at least a similar course...
Brown scored its third on another mistake, as Harvard fullback Tony James tried to chest-trap a shot, which bounced off him into the goal. The fourth goal for the Bruins was scored on a shot about ten yards out of the penalty area...
DANTE, WHOSE OWN GAZE was as resolute in considering his underworld, looms large in the background of Beckett's work. Plato's cave is recalled by the rumor continually circulating in the cylinder that there is a way out, either through a tunnel in the wall or through a trap door in the unreachable ceiling, and by the memory that once man had seen stars shine. But the Inferno in the closet thing to a predecessor ones wander endlessly in a circle, pausing only to climb one of the ladders leading to niches high in the walls, or to join...
...captain Bobbie McGee came close to a goal in the third quarter, when he needed only to trap the ball with his chest and boot it by the last man--the Andover goalie. But the goalie came out and slapped the ball away before McGee could get control of the ball...