This moment transcends Michael Jackson. When you are a child ... you don't have the language to explain what is happening to you, because you've been seduced and entrapped.
I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
And he had no way of clearing himself, for a man couldn't go about saying he had lost his head about a woman — and a gentleman couldn't advertise the fact that his wife had entrapped him with a lie.