Word: trappings
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...year-old Harvard freshman intended as the research for a novel and adds to it commentary written by a 35-year-old Newsweek book review editor. The one thing that must be said in his favor--and it is significant, for many other memorialists fall into the trap--is that he completely avoids sentimentality or indulgence for his 18-year-old self. He makes no attempt to portray his friends or his earlier self as anything other than imperfect individuals. He appears to possess that higher form of egotism that prompted Oliver Cromwell to have himself painted warts...
...investigators practice new tactics, new aggressiveness, with New York particularly showing the way. A patrolman caught on the take used to be prosecuted quickly and forgotten; now he is often "turned" and used to trap higher-ups. The spread of uniformed informers is matched by the proliferation of bugs planted everywhere but inside badges. A blizzard of accountants and other financial sleuths now trace credit cards and checking accounts because, says Jonathan Goldstein, U.S. prosecutor for New Jersey, often "it's just a matter of finding the money...
...man/mind, stands well over six feet tall, while the harbingers of insanity, Laurie Selz and Lisa Myerson in green Geotards and painted faces, are not much more than five feet tall. Innocently he plays with them, lifts them on his shoulders, all tiny, innocent seeming, yet sinister, they trap...
...cause by staging another payroll robbery at a construction site. One of the unit's members, Pat O'Brien, was on holiday in Ireland, and Lennon was ordered by Wicken to steer clear of the caper. The three other members of the unit walked into a trap and were arrested before the heist could take place. In December all were found guilty of plotting the robbery and sentenced to ten years in prison...
...original criminal act, but in front of the grand jury the defendant may have contradicted himself or others so much that he can be caught in a lie. Defense attorneys argue that the ploy is open to abuse because an aggressive investigator's questions can sometimes trap even an innocent suspect. "Witnesses often give unresponsive answers, often for very legitimate reasons," says Sheldon Elsen, who represented Bronston...