Word: trappings
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...invented at Harry's Bar, tel: (39-41) 528 5777. There was none to be seen at this year's parties, but prosecco flowed freely. One of the best selections of Venice's native drink - prosecco grapes are mainly grown in Veneto - minus the art-world pretension or tourist-trap prices, can be found at Timon, tel: (39-41) 524 6066, a decidedly laid-back bar where patrons can dangle their feet over the canal out front...
...Don’t go to Ben and Jerry’s—it’s a tourist trap. Go to the 7-Eleven approximately 50 feet away and pay less money for a larger quantity of the exact same ice cream. Shams like this place make us wonder whether consumers are as infallibly rational as Ec 10 doctrine likes to suggest...
Keeping Secrets Once again, a TIME article has fallen into the trap of depicting Israeli settlements as the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East [July 27]. The key problem continues to be the unwillingness of the Palestinian leadership and most Arab states in the region to accept Israel as a Jewish state. This is a much more fundamental issue than whether someone in Efrat or Ma'aleh Adumim can build an addition onto their house. Henry Goldberg, CHICAGO...
...that Democratic health care plans would create "death panels" which would pass judgment on which citizens deserved to live. Next, a White House suggestion that people who have received e-mails with questionable information about health reform forward those to get clarification was reported by Fox News as a trap to collect the names and e-mail addresses of health reform opponents for an "enemies list." (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...often, when people are trying to put science across, they fall into a trap of using too much jargon. When you hear a scientist speaking on the news, it does sometimes make you cringe a bit. I have to say, one of my favorite TV shows - and I don't know that I should admit this - is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I did go through a phase of four or five books in a row of finding a way of using Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an illustration. [Laughs...