Word: trappings
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...want to meat-ax the programs that have made America great?" he asked. "You close the door on America in the Latta bill." Referring to Reagan's claim that his budget provided a "safety net" for the needy, O'Neill scoffed: "A safety net? It is a trap, not a safety...
...border. Yet, in its budget-cutting fervor, the Reagan Administration has already proposed snipping the INS's appropriation from $371 million to $363 million. Many also argue that it is impossible for the INS to close the borders anyway, while others point out that increased surveillance may only trap some aliens in the U.S. who regularly cross back to their native land...
...misdemeanor. Mrs. Prentice rushes madly from one end of the stage to the other, always one step behind. Melissa Franklin, as the hapless Geraldine Barclay, adds an Edward Gorey-like gallows humor to the play. She plays the innocent, dumb blond with evenness, never falling into the easy trap of whining or simpering...
...face, but they don't believe that she does since "Yallas don't come to being black natural-like. They have to choose it and most don't choose it." She is a vicious thorn piercing Black men's imaginations, a "tar baby side-of-the-road whore trap...
...argued proper Russian usage with Vladimir Nabokov. But he was right about Hemingway's sexual antagonism. It started with his mother. "I hate her guts and she hates mine. She forced my father to suicide," he writes Publisher Charles Scribner in 1949. Women, he suggests frequently, will trap and destroy a man. They can also be too competitive. After his divorce from Combat Correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway writes Scribner: "Have a new housemaid named Martha and certainly is a pleasure to give her orders. Marty was a lovely girl though. I wish she hadn't been quite...