Word: trappings
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History has shown that the matchup with Cornell, situated between games against the Crimson and the Quakers, is a classic trap game for the Tigers. Princeton is just 2-2 against the Big Red over the past four seasons, including a 32-25 escape in overtime two years...
...tempting to end my review here, but that would be to fall into another major trap of talking about “outsider” art: to credit the work with a mystical force and purity based solely on a fetishization of the biography of the artist. While I certainly do admire the intensity with which Castle must have been driven to make those drawings, I also think that they are some of the most beautiful and challenging works on paper I have seen in a long time. Castle’s sooty medium gives his drawings an eerie, cloudy...
...sketches brilliant psychological portraits of the guerrillas?you understand that one man has joined the movement out of sexual rage, another because he can find no other job, and a third simply because he is bored?and you begin to feel sorry for them. Willie falls into the same trap as the reader. Then comes the day he is forced by his comrades to kill. He surrenders to the police and faces the prospect of a long jail term for his crime. Then, in one of the funniest touches in Naipaul's entire oeuvre, Chandran's forgotten book of short...
...needs far outstrip its ability to pay. In the past four years, the country has borrowed $1.5 billion to build schools, clinics and roads. Total debt now stands at $4.3 billion. Meanwhile, collapsing coffee prices have pummeled its export earnings, further undermining attempts to escape from the debt trap. "As long as we cannot balance our budget, we can't avoid borrowing," says Bright Rwamirama, chair of the Ugandan Parliament's finance committee. Debt relief gives countries a predictable flow of resources free from the whims of donors. But when it's directed at poverty reduction, there's little difference...
...knocked down their allegations," moans a Democratic strategist--as if that mattered. "They didn't understand what was going on," Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi says of the Kerry team. "It was almost like, 'That's not true, so we don't need to respond.' That's the trap they fell into. They just got the big wake-up call that it doesn't work that way anymore...