Word: trapsing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Where are you going?" people asked. Memphis, we said. Graceland. But also Alabama and Mississippi. Arkansas and West Virginia. "America" was our answer, half facetious but half serious. We wanted to see real life, real people, not just the tourist traps and standard attractions. We wanted to eat down-home...
Such inflammatory rhetoric sends shudders through the U.S. beef industry, which is already reeling from a nearly one-third drop in per capita consumption since 1976 -- the result of popular concern about fat in the diet. Now Rifkin hungers for a more decisive blow. This week he is leading a...
Celia lives up to his modest expectations when she torments him, leaving the coat rack or the vacuum cleaner in front of the door on her way out. But her antics have a motive--her love for Martin; she uses the booby traps to retaliate against his apathy toward her...
"Defenses need a rhythm, too. You have to know when to step up, when to gamble, when to trap. A lot of the traps we put on were not called, we just saw them at the right moment, and we stepped up and harassed them," Mitchell said.
The realm of the miraculous sometimes lies just across the border from the fanatical or the tacky. Miracles may turn into roadside tourist traps, Fellini scenes. A revelation may go commercial and look like a snake farm beside the highway in North Florida. The transcendent moment falls from grace and...