Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attacking Harvard for its investments in American corporations that do business in South Africa, Jackson said "all who sit here silent, living off...the scholarships, the comfort of this alliance, betray the oppressed...Morally it is decadent. It leads to a soul like a donut--with a hole...
Deaver and Meese are the immediate cases in point. Nothing the two have done has proven to be illegal, but both men have engaged in practices that, at the very least, betray a lack sensitivity to the ethical requirements of high office. One is hard-pressed to give the two the benefit of the doubt given the long list of sleeze that preceeds them: Hugel, Reed, Donovan, Wick, Allen...
Sometimes, at the end of a long day, Duarte's eyes betray an ineffable sadness. It is as if he alone were carrying the burden of his country's past and future. No one knows as well as Duarte how much remains to be done. The economy is still comatose. The war sputters on, always capable of flaring suddenly. And in the end, Duarte must cope not just with the wounds of the past five years but with a tradition of violence that is as old as the country. "The blood of dead peasants has not dried, time does...
Some of Sendak's illustrations for Nutcracker particularly the smaller and more conventionally stylized portraits of soldiers crews horses and the array of other minute depictions are both lovely and appropriate. The large illustrations however betray much too much Where The Wild Things Are and threatened to distract from the text. They're fine if you are partial to Max's dreams, but they are not Hoffmann and the distractions is unwelcome. His contribution to the revival of the Hoffmann spirits of the Nutcracker cannot be underscored enough. Yet one who claims to hold the thoughts of children so dear...
...Meyers and Charles Shyer (who here makes his directorial debut) appear to have been up and down and to have learned that both are bad news; they also display a familiarity with the life and films of Peter Bogdanovich. Only in their reach for a reconciling ending do they betray the cool ferocity of their approach. They may love old movies as much as their protagonist does, but they should know that, for good or ill, Frank Capra has retired. -By Richard Schickel