Word: trappings
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...choice of conforming, because she has no navel, no connection to even family. She is eccentric, living outside respectability with her daughter and her daughter's daughter, off the proceeds of her homemade wine. Pilate, in her unkempt and mystical way, is not bound by the conventions that trap ordinary people, so that she has less distance to travel to freedom than the rest of her family. She alone is fertile, loving; she alone will fight to protect her children or repeatedly, to save her nephew. Crazy, gypsy-like Pilate becomes the symbol of life itself...
...their lies." Berlinguer accused them of regarding "the Communist Party as the enemy to be defeated." In a bitter reference to the French intellectuals' manifesto, he noted that "the right wing often disguises itself as leftist, and cultural idiots at home and abroad fall right into the trap...
...jargon-the trade terms used by secret service personnel. His invented spy lingo is so persuasive that it has convinced readers that spies actually talk that way. As a matter of fact, sometimes they do. According to their inventor, such Le Carré words as mole and honey trap have been co-opted by British and Russian spies; others are rapidly entering the language. Among them...
...Honey trap: counterintelligence snare with male or female sexual bait...
DIVORCED. Hayley Mills, 31, star of kiddie cinema (Pollyanna, The Parent Trap) who rounded nicely into adult roles (The Family Way, Twisted Nerve); and Roy Boulting, 63, British producerdirector; after six years of marriage, one son; in London. The suit alleging Mills' adultery with Actor Leigh Lawson was uncontested...