Word: trappings
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...three children born to Creighton Abrams Sr., a railroad hand on the Boston & Albany, and the former Nellie Randall, the daughter of an estate caretaker. When Abrams was a boy, the family settled in the rural area of nearby Feeding Hills. There Abrams raised baby beef, ran a trap line for skunk and muskrat, patched together a wheezing model T and learned to shoot by drilling holes with his .22 through tin cans tossed up by his father...
...Forced underground in the mid-'30s, he ran into a police trap one night, escaped only after a blazing gunfight...
...pneumatic drill, and in a number called Why Do the Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...
After four sellout nights last Spring, the show received six New York offers. Robert D. Feldstein, producer of Agatha Christie's long-running "The Mouse Trap," got the contract...
Richardson neglects the necessity for compromise and negotiation. He almost falls into the trap which has rendered many political reformers useless. By his description of a political career in Massachusetts, he implies that politics per se perpetuates its own corruption. Rather, as he indicated earlier, it is the complete subordination of issues to personal interest, not the favors system itself--an essential lubricant in the wheels of government--which has allowed graft to flourish in this state...