Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands kept wondering: how long could Harvard continue to keep its head above water? When would Duke arrest its tantalizing game of cat and mouse and finally open up the trap into which the Crimson was inevitably supposed to fall...
...Harvard evaded the Blue Devils' trap, and the prey proved almost as shrewd as the hunter--perhaps even shrewder, considering the dominating talent of the Duke cagers...
...Hampshire debate may have been Koppel's most sensitive assignment ever, and he handled it ably but with restraint. He explains, "I could not be quite as tough as on Nightline. The point was not for me to elicit any particular piece of information or to trap someone in an inconsistency." Still, some of the discussion displayed him at his deflating best. When the candidates talked about cutting the military budget, Koppel asked which domestic military bases they considered unnecessary. When they kept emphasizing that none of them downgrade the importance of peace, Koppel noted, "In fairness...
...matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments of them as tough-minded, unfair, soft, impetuous, cautious, shrewd, stubborn, dangerous. When with trick or trap questions television interviewers try to test how a challenger would react under pressure, the questioners often end up appearing overbearing and rude. Far from being a diversion from a sensible discussion of the issues, however, judgments about character and temperament are essential in choosing a President...
...special set of ethical questions concerns the elite of American reporters, the Washington press corps. Indeed, much of the journalistic behavior that the public says it finds objectionable is seen chiefly in telecasts from Washington: rudeness to high officials, prosecutorial shouting of questions at press conferences, overt attempts to trap an interview subject with trick questions, "instant analysis" of speeches that viewers have just seen for themselves. Another blow to the image of all journalists was struck in Washington last Friday when White House Spokesman Larry Speakes announced that he had trapped two reporters purloining internal White House memos...