Word: trapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land fraud schemes, Bolles rushed off to meet him at a Phoenix hotel. While he waited, someone apparently placed the explosive charge in his car, parked in the hotel lot. Adamson failed to appear, and Bolles soon after stepped into his white 1976 four-door Datsun−and the trap that had been laid...
...been the dream of Sir Robert Helpmann, 67, the Australian Ballet's director for 50 years. The idea is a seductive one. The operetta, of course, has dancing in it. The score is filled with mellow waltzes and Hungarian folk tunes, complete with mandolins and castanets. The trap for a choreographer lies in Lehar's melodies, which enhance the voice like exquisite garments that are no longer made. No steps danced to Vilia are satisfying, because memory hears a soprano singing...
Readers who wonder why the author stretches Miss Herbert over 300 pages will also wonder why the book is difficult to put down. The reason is that Stead has constructed her trap with extraordinary craftsmanship and provided the perfect bait: a woman persuasively beautiful enough to arouse envy in the female and interest in the male...
After three previous tries at love and marriage, crotchety Crooner Frank Sinatra is announcing his willingness to fall into the tender trap once more. Frank, 60, who enjoyed matrimony successively with Childhood Sweetheart Nancy Barbato and Actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, has promised he will soon be getting to the church on time with Barbara Marx, in her forties, a former Las Vegas showgirl, model and ex-wife of the Marx Brothers' Zeppo. "Yes, it's true, but it's nobody's goddam business," grumped Frank last week, suggesting that he had had high hopes...
...good-even if Commoner does not spell out how the nation should go about financing such changes. But then he moves to a more demanding and shakier argument. All U.S. industry, he says, is caught in a trap. It keeps looking to new technologies to boost output and has to pay immense amounts of money for new machines. Since the money cannot come from internal profits - which Commoner, at least, claims have dropped sharply - it has to come from banks and other investors who are already pinched for capital. Moreover, the new processes tend to use less human labor, spurring...