Word: trappings
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FATE, CRUEL AND derisive, always seems to trap the errant. In the fiction of Nabokov, this fate is the will of the author who is empowered by his art to create his characters and coolly plan out their destinies. He operates them like marionettes, then drops their strings and watches them collapse. Thus he deals with the enchanter...
...which observes explicit protections of due process and which gives students the right to an open hearing, would protect students' rights regardless of the extraneous circumstances of the charges brought against them. But unless such a new disciplinary committee is an appeals body, it will fall into the same trap that mired the CRR in controversy over questions of legitimacy...
Operating on a shoe-string budget, and keeping one step ahead of firemen who would have closed the theater as a fire-trap, the Poet's Theater became the stopping point for numerous literary luminaries, Hunt told the overflowing crowd...
Whether it was all part of a calculated plan to trap the U.S., Gorbachev's opening gambit achieved an intermediate goal: relinking the issue of medium- range missiles to SDI for the time being. Before Reykjavik, the Soviets had indicated that they would be willing to make an interim deal on INF divorced of strategic and defensive issues. The American game plan had been to decouple as many issues as possible from the prickly SDI dispute. But Gorbachev enticed the Americans into a whirligig of negotiations with his sweeping proposals. Only toward the end, when U.S. and Soviet positions overlapped...
...however, think the Soviet performance was more impulsive than premeditated. "What happened to the Soviets was contrary to their expectations," says Dimitri Simes, a Sovietologist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Both sides were upping the ante beyond what was realistic for the two delegations. Gorbachev intended to trap the President, but then he became involved himself in the dialogue and allowed the attraction of the grand compromise to divert him from his main ambitions . . . My impression is that Gorbachev is a gambler...