Word: trapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration insists it is not offering to trade for the hostages in violation of U.S. policy, the trap that Ronald Reagan fell into. "We can offer ((the Iranians)) better opportunities with the West, but we're not going to hold out anything specific," said a White House official...
...contrast to most American dramatists, who have excelled at depicting the struggles of home and hearth but not the larger world, Hwang thinks more shrewdly about mankind than about individual men and women. He has the steel- trap analytic grasp of the champion scholastic debater he once was, the lawyer he thought of becoming. The main weakness of his writing is that its purpose often seems more political than literary, more attuned to social issues than to the private struggles of the human heart. The final scene of M. Butterfly, when the agony of one soul finally takes precedence over...
...Walking Like a Panther isn't an album that will head rap in a different direction. LL still falls into the trap that has hurt rap's credibility. He brags too much about sex. Better stated, he brags too much about his own sexual conquests...
Once Barry wowed critics with a sharp mind, penetrating questions and a phenomenal recall of names, faces and dates. Now his steel-trap mind is rusty. In a recent interview, Barry's fatigue overwhelmed him. His face sagged, his eyelids drooped. He talked haltingly, stopping often to gaze at the far wall of his cavernous office. He mixed up dates and forgot a name. At one point, a pitcher of ice water in his hand, he poised haltingly over his coffee cup as his face betrayed mounting confusion over the disappearance of his water glass, which he had earlier placed...
...reading The Thirsty Muse, the reader never doubts that the writers became powerless in the face of alcohol. Dardis writes that only O'Neill escaped its trap. But O'Neill merely traded addictions--he died a drug addict. Dardis does not even begin to explain what caused the author to fall prey to another addiction...