Word: entrapment
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...charges against her daughter. Another friend adds that she is concerned about possible retaliation by Farrakhan. But Farrakhan seems otherwise inclined. A spokesperson for the Minister said on Thursday that "his heart goes out to the Shabazz family"; another added that "it would be easy for conspirators to entrap this troubled young woman...
...bombing attempt in New York City in 1978. Fitzpatrick and Shabazz were high school pals who remained close over the years, the source told White. At a Chicago news conference, Nation of Islam lawyer Ava Muhammad blamed the feds for targeting Shabazz. "It would be easy for conspirators to entrap this troubled young woman," she said. Shabazz was four years old when she witnessed the gunning down of her father in a Harlem mosque...
...claimed the congressman had sex with her two years ago, when she was underage. Turner said she has now recanted her allegation. He then read a statement that he said she wrote, which states in part that she had been coached by police on how to entrap Reynolds during phone conversations. Prosecutors initially discounted the statement, saying that they'd had never heard of Turner and had no immediate plans to drop the case. A former Reynolds congressional aide, though, told the Associated Press today that last summer Reynolds had talked about hiring Turner to represent his young accuser. Reynolds...
...carried the production through with verve. Catherine deLima, playing the spirited Rosalinda, dominated the production with her dynamic voice and smirking facial expressions. Particularly charming was the duet in which deLima seduces Edward Upton (Eisenstein, Rosalinda's husband) in disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting nonetheless compensated for want of volume...
Works of art about the underclass almost always entrap both creators and audiences in moral ambiguity. No matter how determined not to condescend, artists and spectators all but inevitably feel an anthropological distance from their subjects. This holds especially true in the theater, a medium the underclass is apt to avoid as alien and unaffordable. Certainly, few playgoers at Aven'U Boys, a violent and vivid series of vignettes set in Brooklyn, New York, that debuted off-Broadway last week, appear to share the despondent, nihilistic subliteracy of the title trio of Italian Americans in their late teens (played, with...