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...idyls. And as soon as a new last paradise has been found, so many people hurry to make claims on it that it becomes, almost instantly, a lost paradise. With crowds of strangers flocking together to escape the crowds, last year's lotus land becomes this year's tourist trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: How Paradise Is Lost - and Found | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...mystic unicorns, the keepers of the light of the universe without which the sun could not rise. As usual in this sort of drama, it's the girl who gets the plot going. Intoxicated by the beauty-and muscularity?--of these beasts, Lilly unwittingly leads them into a trap set by one of Evil's assistants. One unicorn down, one to go. And the cosmic order has officially been screwed...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...CRIMSON article revealed something even more insidious at work: Third World-minority students have themselves fallen into the trap of thinking they have to agree. Maybe it shouldn't startle me; our views about race are also shaped by the society in which we have grown up and the Harvard environment...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Yes, We Actually Disagree | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

...tackle the array of problems confronting her. Says one of her supporters: "If Cory continues to be mesmerized by the euphoria of so-called people power and ignores the practical realities of politics, she will stumble sooner than expected." She clearly does not intend to fall into that trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Now the Hard Part | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Predictably, our sweet young Terry falls into the trap as well, eventually becoming so enmeshed in these illicit activities that only Jack's intervention--he the proverbial knight on a white horse, or in this case Schwin charger--can save...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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