Word: trap
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...Robertson, focusing on one character's descent into madness becomes a means of avoiding the madness trap. Not until the end of the play does Mary Girard admitor rather, accepther insanity. But she is surrounded from the very beginning by nameless characters whose abnormal mental states are already well established, making her the only persona in the drama with any degree of development. The Furies, as Robertson calls them, are dramatic constants, little more than moving pieces of scenery in the story of Mary's fall from sanity. But this dramatic bracketing of the other characters on stage...
...Thursday, the Associated Press, which managed to scrounge up a summary of the as yet unreleased study, outlined the distinguished scientists' grim prediction in no uncertain terms: If greenhouse gases continue to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, we can expect average global temperatures to rise between 2.7 degrees and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. That kind of increase, scientists contend, means cataclysmic changes in our environment: Think melting of the polar ice caps, flooding and drought...
...first-and-goal from the eight, Leiszler took the ball on a trap play--in which the left guard pulled and blocked the left defensive tackle--up the middle. Though he was met at the goal line by both Princeton safeties, he ran over both of them for the final score of the game with 3:18 remaining...
...Scary Robert Downey Jr. stories c) A Chinese finger trap d) Gum, a hair clip and an old MacGyver video...
...golf courses and 25 tennis courts, as well as its spa and food. During Christmas week, the Cloister offers several packages for the sporting family: a pro-am and parent-child golf tournaments; a junior golf school and clinics; and the Sea Island Shooting School for skeet, trap, sporting clay and archery. Prices are reasonable because rates include all meals and many activities--and those rates don't go up if you bring the kids www.seaisland.com...