Word: trappings
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...following things are definite this week at the IAB: the cagers (5-7 Ivy) definitely have a chance to finish the season at .500, but not overall (they stand at 10-14). Bob Allen will definitely say goodbye. And this is definitely the last varsity game in the flea trap on Holyoke St. Maybe...
...would like to know why your cover depicted the paw of the Russian bear caught in a steel trap in Afghanistan [Jan. 28] when it is the U.S. that is behaving like a wounded animal...
...real problem with Cruising is Friedkin's inability to deliver what should have been a brilliant thriller about sex and death. This film muffles a potentially explosive premise. In order to trap a psychopathic murderer who preys on gays, Cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) adopts a fictive homosexual identity and blends into the rough S-M scene. Gradually he zeroes in on the killer, but not without paying a weird price: Burns begins to lose his real-life grip on heterosexuality...
...Eagles' game-long full court trap press did little to bother the Crimson. But without a hot hand from the outside, Harvard could not penetrate the zone of the much taller B.C. squad, and the Crimson watched its errant aerials fall into the waiting arms of Eagle rebounders...
...Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), occult films (The Exorcist, The Omen and sequel films (The French Connection, American Graffiti, Rocky, Jaws and most everything else, part II) that provided the standard fare for most of this country's theaters during much of the decade. We tended to stumble into the trap of praising a movie just because it made money when our critical instincts should have told us otherwise. Very little in this decade rivalled Citizen Kane; we should not have felt compelled to compromise our standards because the material did not meet our expectations...