Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill up half an hour on a midday Sunday talk show. These programs are both opportunity and trap to a politician who feels the need to get public exposure. The shows get relatively low ratings, but the ratings would be even lower if the programs were only sober discussion of the issues; viewers hope that Roger Mudd, George Will or Sam Donaldson can draw blood. Secretary of State George Shultz can be droningly evasive and still be asked back; lesser fry do not dare. (Andrei Gromyko doesn't have to face the problem at all.) No American politician could...
...Toby Belch) and Francis Cuka (Maria) also provide the play with some of its most amusing--and bawdy--humor in their defiance of courtly propriety. And by far the most hilarious performance of the evening is Joseph Costa's portrayal of the cantakeorous Malvolio, whose vanity and self-importance trap him into--among other ludicrously comic gestures--adorning himself in yellow stockings...
With the exception of Michael Corleone, Turi Guiliano is the shallowest major character in the novel. He reads good books, idealizes justice and respects religion. But if he has a thought subtler than how to trap his enemies, he keeps it to himself. By contrast, Aspanu Pisciotta, the hero's friend and chief lieutenant, has a vivid psychology that eventually sustains Horace's 2,000-year-old observation that "Sicilian tyrants never invented a greater torment than envy...
...station was still small, with only a single studio and control room. "My principal memory of it was that it was a fire trap and we always wondered how long it would last," says former President Richard P. Kleeman...
...much of an idea of what Boswell's Edinburgh or London were like, an odd characteristic given Brady's argument that London played a significant role in determining Boswell's mood. And the little bit of London that we do see finds Brady slipping into the same trap that misleads all too many 18th century scholars. London may have had many sordid aspects, the extensive prostitution as an example, but there was also much beauty to the city, a beauty to which Boswell certainly was exposed and which helped to shape his character...