Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scuttling into a creek. He dropped out, took a one-stroke penalty, missed a 4-ft. putt, and scored an appalling double-bogey seven that left him tied with Palmer Shaken, Player fluffed a simple, 3-ft. puti on the 15th, dropped a stroke behind Staggering through a sand trap on the 18th; Player finished with a total of 280, eight strokes under par for the 72-hole tournament. Near tears and certain that he had lost, he hid out in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' apartment to watch Palmer's finish on television...
Eric Martin's set is, as usual, original, simple, serviceable, brilliant. And Mirsky used is quite intelligently. The stage is a small circle with a revolving couch, a trap door, and many ramps leading offstage; and Mirsky has solved the problem of exposing his actors to both audiences by moving them around and around whenever he could...
Downstairsville, there is a two-story, chandeliered, oak-paneled living room with teakwood floors and a trap door through which you can drop twelve feet into a kidney-shaped indoor pool. "That," I'll tell my visitors, "is where we throw the old, discarded girls." At the end of the pool is a waterfall, and you can swim through it twosies into a dark, warm grotto which has wide ledges at the sides, softened with plastic-cover-ed cushions...
...tale of the masterful, but neurotic bootlegger manipulating a medicore, but good sheriff into a tragic trap. The Noblest Roman is somewhat ineffectual. But, as satire on the South, on county politics and preachings, and on the art of bootlegging, David Halberstam's first novel is pretty damned witty...
Head in the Way. To trap the ever-changing image of war, the three illustrated papers dispatched a mere handful of men-some 30 in all from beginning to end, and never more than a dozen at any one time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention...