Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed that his mission had not been an unalloyed triumph after all. Echoing the sentiments of many Tokyo political analysts and wary businessmen, the Japan Times said: "Teng charmed many people here, but worries persist that China's warmth may not only reduce our foreign policy options, but also trap us in an economic quagmire, rather than grant us the benefits of a combined market of 1 billion Chinese people." Still, that may be the price that Japan will have to pay, as it joins its neighbor in the struggle against hegemony...
...contrast probably has something to do with the positions they play. Tackle is a brutal pit position, requiring unfailing consistency and punishing straight-ahead blocking. Guard demands a greater variety of skills, the quickness to pull, trap and range around the field...
Clark can pull, pass-block or trap capably. (Karras: "When he's assigned to trap a linebacker, he hardly ever misses."), while Kross's down blocking stands out among his all-around strengths...
MIKE CLARK, senior guard. The only thing you have to know about this 6-1, 220 linesman is that he can move people. People on the other team, that is. He can do it all--pull, trap, passblock. If the hopes of the defense center around Beling, then the hopes of the offense rest in large part with Clark...
...Malfi but two. The Santa Fe Opera company, which has presented 20 American and world premieres in its 22 seasons, has just produced the American premiere of The Duchess of Malfi by British Composer and Librettist Stephen Oliver, 28. A second Duchess has simultaneously been staged at Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, outside of Washington, D.C., this one a world premiere by American Composer Stephen Douglas Burton, 35, and Librettist-Conductor Christopher Keene, 31. Strikingly different?one discordant, the other warm-bloodedly romantic?the two Duchesses show a growing divergence in modern music: between contemporary dissonances...