The Kabuki stage is equipped with several gadgets, such as revolving stages and trapdoors through which the actors can appear and disappear.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Governments everywhere will try, by statute, to insert themselves electronically into cyber transactions (i.e. instant tax collection) or into the infrastructure itself (chip trapdoors).

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The howls and hand-wringing over global capitalism and its trapdoors of "hot money, " hedge fund hocus-pocus and derivative meltdowns have won headlines for shouters like George Soros.

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It is virtually a parallel city, an underworld Plati where bunkers located behind sliding staircases, hidden trapdoors and even inside a pizza oven are linked by endless tunnels.

BBC: 'Ndrangheta: Exploring the mafia's underground world

Even if Republicans won the White House and congressional majorities in November, the frustrating legislative trapdoors that slowed and nearly killed health reform in 2009 and 2010 will likely remain hurdles to repeal.

CNN: Repeal health care law? Forget about it