Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speakers called for the increased awareness of these issues. In addition, Liebowitz suggested that those who are victims of rape and other abuses "work around cultural myths so that they don't trap...
...there was a three paragraph brief entitled "Suspects Troubled Past". Beatrice was quoted only as saying her son "spent a troubled youth." None of the readers could see the absolute poverty that this woman was experiencing on the west side of Harlem. The short article masked the airtight trap...
Both Clinton and Brown got caught in the jaws of the New York media, which seemed determined to trap them in a game of trivial pursuit. CLINTON ON THE S- POT, blared the New York Post about his recent admission that he tried marijuana as a graduate student. The Daily News chimed in about Brown's lack of support for New York City during its fiscal crisis in 1975: HE MOONBEAMED BIG APPLE. Appearing on Donahue, which is taped in Manhattan, Clinton was subjected to a half-hour interrogation about his sex life that seemed endless. The next day Brown...
...clearance who devoted himself solely to such research, for a paycheck of $49,000 a year. And, can we ever forget, a U.S. President and his First Lady arranged even their official schedules on the advice of an astrologer in San Francisco? Even TIME magazine sometimes slips into the trap, as it did in a recent cover story on alternative medicine when it included the absurdity of "crystal healing" as a possible medical remedy...
Many bands fall into the trap of trying to outdo themselves and end up sounding contrived, but not Def Leppard. Adrenalize is a wholly original album that has some of Def Leppard's best trademarks yet is not a direct copy of their previous successes...