Word: trappings
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...nightclubbing. As Kay paces in the wee hours, Rex reaches philosophically for the brandy. "After all," he muses, "it isn't how much we drink that matters. It's how much she drinks." Actress Kendall herself, in the midst of preparing a lunatic scheme to trap the cad, pauses long enough to exclaim: "Isn't this tremendous...
Buffed. In Elizabethton, Tenn., 22 motorists chased two fire trucks across town and into a trap set by police, who were waiting with summonses for traffic obstruction...
Mark Twain's classic rules for fiction, reflected Morris in a rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplus age," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...
...into the Porcellian doorway (to the red-eyed dismay of a vanishing aristocrat who had chanced to the building in high hopes of a little wit and bourbon). She was just in time to avoid a pack of Summer School girls prowling the walk in search of males. "Mouse-trap," "parietal rules," and "sports car" drifted back from their grim and whispered ruminations...
...Supreme Sacrifice. Krim takes obvious pleasure in recalling his own exploits-how he evaded French police who had him trapped aboard a train, how he eluded the phony appointments set up to trap him. With a certain masculine embarrassment, he reluctantly confirms French reports that he has on occasion disguised himself as a veiled Moslem woman, explains defensively: "I would do anything for the revolution." His proudest boast is of the manner in which he foiled a daring scheme originated by Jacques Soustelle, then Governor General of Algeria...