Word: trappings
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...Tender Trap. The fight illustrates a major U.S. business trend: not since the heyday of corporate raiding in the 1950s have there been so many attempts at "unfriendly" takeovers-those that are resisted by the management of the company being acquired. Instead of staging a proxy fight, today's takeover artist usually asks stockholders to "tender" him their shares for purchase at a fixed price by a set date. A decade ago, tender offers were practically unheard of. But a record 113 offers were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the fiscal year that ended June...
Unger here is at the precipice of his analysis. Liberal thought and its revisions are in ruins below him--he looks out toward a new kind of society. But he has caught himself in his own trap: because the general can never accurately describe a particular, he can construct no clear vision of what should come about. The rudiments of his new theory, as formulated, is open to pretty much the same attacks he levels at Marxism. In attempting "total" criticism, Unger launched an attack not merely upon liberalism, but upon the concept of theory itself. And it is probably...
...recent years Caldwell has successfully staged Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord and Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos for the New York City Opera. In the summer of 1974 she conducted and restaged her War and Peace at Wolf Trap outside Washington...
...death trap, it's a suicide...
...that lies beyond "deceptive rainbows." In the world of the play, icy and sterile as glass, time is stagnant, and escape from the past requires an effort of will impossible for the fearful and freakish. They are a diseased family, the Wingfields, and the illusions that both protect and trap them are like the animals in the glass menagerie, all too brittle and transparent, shattering painfully at their first contact with an "emissary from the world of the real...