Word: trappings
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...mind cleared: maybe he couldn't bear the thought of returning to face a campus of sullen undergraduates, maybe he happened to pick up an airline magazine from the seat pocket, and Brooke's smile warmed his heart. Or he may have thought seriously, and sensibly, about the trap the committee had fallen into...
...Another trap in Stoppard's play is the confining of rich, mock-Elizabethan dialogue to a spare, absurdist setting--as critics have pointed out, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern draws heavily from Samuel Beckett's style. But director Kaplan perhaps tips the scales too heavily toward the absurd tradition. The stark stage, the sparse furniture are all there, and rightly so. But the Shakespearean tradition is just as important: Stoppard includes sizable chunks from Hamlet, and his own words show a penchant for language tricks...
Whether Congress will buy that rationale remains to be seen. The Administration is caught in a classic trap: it can demonstrate that it is not violating the Boland Amendment (if in fact it is not) only by disclosing enough details of its aid to the contras to strip the last shreds of secrecy from the operation. If it is unwilling to do that, it risks having Congress put much tighter limits on its not-very-covert support of the contras. Says one official: "They could pull the purse strings...
...people will actually read A New Democracy, many will consequently fall into its trap and consider the author an intellect and a scholar. But the "thinking man" he aims to attract will try to slog through it, and, upon doing so, will think twice about accepting Gary Hart
...film even the madcap Pythoneers seemed to hold themselves back under the weight of their own irreverence. Modeled after a Lewis Carroll poem. Jabberwocky deteriorated into nerve-deadening blood and gore. A romp through time and space with a seven-year-old (Time Bandits) fell into the saddest trap of all--it was cute. And a couple of truly limp filmings of live shows made even the most adoring followers doubt any future theme movie could recapture that early perfect match between spooter and spoofee...