Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Movies are expensive. It's easy to overlook how much you shell out to see one--going to the movies is such a standard activity one barely thinks about how much is being plunked down. If you catch yourself in this trap--ignoring your expenditures because, "hey, I'm just going to see a movie"--then it's probably a good idea to remind yourself exactly what this proposition consists of. You are paying good money for the privilege of spending two hours sitting down. Now this seems obvious enough, probably even condescending, but you'd be surprised what people...
...cares about the story? What matters is the pure pageantry of it all--the piled wigs and gilded breeches; the lovestruck and the lunatic both mingling with gods. Fate is lowered from a trap door to walk with hunchbacks and adulterers. The fornicators wear brocaded robes and the chaste are no less adorned. What matters is the glittering recitative--the strange power of the counter-tenor and his haunting arias. The characters and their conflicts are secondary amusements; harmless distractions as each singer is guided or goaded into glory by the basso continuo. What matters is the music...
With Maine attempting to pull off an offsides trap, which had worked three times early on, Lenicheck made a perfect run on the ball as Montoy passed it over the top of the defense...
Most of the early success Maine enjoyed from its offsides trap quickly evaporated after this two-minute stretch...
...which implies that Gore isn't brave enough or doesn't care enough about the poor to spend what it takes to help them. And in a way, this is a hopeless trap. Bradley may be making promises he can't keep, but Gore suffers if he pulls on a green eyeshade and starts sounding bloodless as he challenges Bradley's numbers and details. After all, Bradley says, Kennedy didn't know what kind of rocket fuel it would take to get to the moon; he just had the nerve to vow that we would get there somehow...