Word: trappings
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...world. The BFS, which really is just the treasure itself (making the film far less exciting than the revelatory, guilty-pleasure wonders of Da Vinci), is hidden behind a sea of coincidences and impossible guesswork that would have even MacGyver spinning his head. The chance encounters, genius revelations and trap door plotting of National Treasure are so tired that Jerry Bruckheimer himself probably couldn’t stay awake watching the dailies. But somehow, the BFS keeps you going: the unveiling of the BFS, the mystery of the BFS, the cathartically erotic potential...
...speak the same language as most Americans, for whom “gender” glosses as “biological sex” and “queer” isn’t a word to throw around in polite company. But the stronger trap lies in the temptation to apply unsubstantiated categories. Dismissing the statements of relatives and friends as “homophobic,” even if they are, deprives students of the opportunity to advance substantive arguments that might have reached their target if they had been framed as a point open for discussion...
...running from fire fight to fire fight for 48 hours straight with no sleep, fueled only by the modest pickings from their ration packs. As they searched through nine of the houses on the block, the soldiers turned up nothing. When they trudged into the 10th house, though, a trap was sprung: the insurgents had lured them in and then opened fire, forcing Bellavia's men to scramble out of the house as shards of glass peppered them and bullets ricocheted off the gates of the courtyard. Bellavia yelled for a Bradley armored fighting vehicle to get "up here...
...that the show didn't air there, he joked that in that case, he wasn't going. He adored the program, he said, because the mouse, not the cat, always won. All his life, Arafat was the little guy of the Middle East, scampering feverishly to avoid one lethal trap or another. While he never quite prevailed over any of the region's heavies, he did have the indestructible quality of an animated figure. Or so it seemed until last week, when Arafat, 75, died of an undisclosed cause at a hospital outside of Paris...
When Lockhart reported for duty at Kerry headquarters, the first thing he did was pick a fight--the one the campaign had been avoiding for months. Kerry's shifting answers on Iraq had become more than a damage-control problem. When the candidate had fallen into Bush's August trap, the truth he had been trying to outrun since he slipped past Howard Dean in the primaries finally caught up with him: his position on Iraq was incomprehensible to anybody who wasn't a regular lunch guest at the Council on Foreign Relations, and it was getting more so every...