Word: trappings
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Last week when I visited the trial, the defense was left with only one precious peremptory challenge, and the pressure was immense to "trap" the hostile juror into making a statement which would give the court cause to excuse him. The very last member of one panel of 50 jurors was a college-educated supervisor at Schick-Eversharp Razor, a company which is currently engaged in making a film about the Panthers. This man, a member of the National Rifle Association, had talked to colleagues who had been excused for cause, for being, among other things, too involved with...
...deadly force may not generally be used to protect property unless it is also necessary for self-defense. Since no one was there when Katko broke in, no one's personal safety was threatened. The prowler was therefore entitled to collect for the misuse of the overpowerful booby trap...
...should remember that good, honest hackwork is hard to come by, though I don't expect those brought up on Antonioni to understand this. As written and performed, there is more humanity and intelligence in Caine's and Sharif's characters than those who fall into the snob-trap are apt to admit. I take Clavell's work on these two characters as a good sign for commercial moviemaking. And to hell with the characters in the Gary audience who laughed when Caine's Captain died. May they greet death as gracefully. The sooner, the better...
...even as you write this, you realize that you too have failed. You wanted to show what this "draft evader" was like as a person, and you didn't. Instead, you used him to make your point. That is the trap of this game. And, very sadly, you have fallen right into...
...half the estimated number of the needy and eligible. Increased by the recession and the growing activism of welfare rights groups, the rolls continue to grow in every part of the country. After 35 years of legislation and programs, the world's wealthiest nation seems caught in a paradoxical trap: the more the U.S. spends on its poor, the greater the need seems to be to spend more still...