Word: trappings
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Carey attempts to prove that though Loos associated with the excesses and inanities of Hollywood life, she clung to a reserved, almost conventional outlook. Carey's book is thorough, almost painstakingly so. He does not fall into the trap of treating his subject with simpering adoration, a common pitfall of Hollywood biographies. But Carey's impassive storytelling is dry, relying too often on Loos' detailed diary to the exclusion of analysis. Do we really need to know that, "That afternoon, while Gladys was still in Teaneck, she prepared a lunch of toast and Lipton's chicken noodle soup and started...
Broken Locks Trap Straus Residents...
...supposed wedding on Oct. 9, in which both bride and groom were undercover Customs agents, was an elaborate ruse designed to lure the jet- setting bankers back into U.S. jurisdiction from other countries. Within 72 hours after the Tampa trap was sprung, American and British customs agents arrested 40 bankers and narcotics traffickers in London and several U.S. cities on money laundering and other charges...
Wright, it develops, was the victim of a trap laid by his longtime enemy Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. The plan was hatched when Wright criticized CIA covert actions during a meeting with contra leaders two weeks ago. His comments were passed on to Abrams, who leaked them to the ultra- conservative Washington Times. It was a Times reporter who initially questioned Wright about CIA activities...
...film is not just television writ large, and TV-bred filmmakers seem incapable of avoiding the trap of putting stories and images better suited to the confines of the idiot box on the big screen, adding special effects and a few cuss words. There is also the danger, to the filmgoer, that such a project is little more than a 90-minute commercial for tchatchkes with the star's name on them...