Word: trappings
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...graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children. A few pictures showed kids staring blankly at the camera, their flesh grotesquely disfigured by Dow's napalm, but most of the shots were of boys and girls dancing in a circle, making pungi sticks to trap U.S. soldiers, or working in the rice-fields. On top of the pictures was a strip of paper with the words, "Children are born to be happy...
...Messiah takes up the story after the end of the jihad-holy war-which has made Paul the emperor and the deity of the known universe. As his empire grew, his psychic powers have grown, until he is forced to rely on them totally. But total prescience is a trap-it removes him from his sources of strength and turns his allies into tools...
...contradiction in terms. In the neon wilderness, blue-haired ladies pull on the one-armed bandits as if they were lifelines; at the card and crap tables, aggressive customers line up like lambs for the fleecing. Like a Vegas concession, The Only Game in Town is a tempting trap. The odds look attractive: Elizabeth Taylor back at her fighting weight, Warren Beatty in his first film since Bonnie and Clyde, both directed by George Stevens (Shane, Giant). But the result is as empty as a croupier's spiel...
...Green Bay football dynasty in the late '60's, as seen by Kramer, a then recently-retired Packer lineman and kicking specialist. I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow recounts the embryonic construction of another dynasty, as seen by one of its creator. And Schaap falls easily into the trap of using a parallel style for the latter...
...protagonists turn to furious, one-directional drives to break out of the apparent trap. It's then that they are really caught-locked into forward motion that leads to their destruction. Fury shows that they have to learn to see what they are in and what they are doing. When they recognize that the track in cannot ran over everything in its path, they will be able to live in a complex society...