Word: betrayal
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...stage, designer John Conklin deploys props -- solid, handsome, witty -- in ever shifting assemblages. Director Colin Graham sends ghostly ladies flying gently through the air, each looking like a Fragonard dreamscape. Whatever their sins against the people, these aristocrats have found a happy repose, and the opera's creators betray a considerable royalist bias...
Duke, whose intense blue eyes betray an inner fanaticism, tries to shrug off his past. "I'm not a racist," he says during an interview in the two-story Metairie home that doubles as his headquarters. "I was too intolerant in an earlier time in my life. But I certainly am not now." Though his disavowal drips with disingenuousness, it is winning converts -- particularly among educated middle-class voters who sense something is terribly wrong with the state. Duke, who fancies comparisons with Boris Yeltsin, appeals to the same kind of throw-the-bums-out impulse that the Russian leader...
...Central Committee passed a resolution last week condemning the Yeltsin decree. Gorbachev also claimed that he would oppose any moves against local party cells by "all constitutional means." But hard-liners like Sergeyev suspect the President will betray them. They contend that Gorbachev wants the issue to be decided by the Committee for Constitutional Compliance, which rules on the constitutionality of laws, rather than veto the decree himself and risk alienating Yeltsin. No matter what the Kremlin does, the Russians are bound to go ahead with plans to kick party functionaries out of factories...
...York art in the time of its first big flowering, the '40s and '50s. Which does not imply that other artists in the New York School lacked probity; only that Reinhardt made such a fierce point of showing where he thought art could go wrong, become soft, betray its essence. He was a fine aphoristic preacher, irresistibly quotable, and a deadly parodist. He listed the technical skills of the modern American artist as "brushworking, panhandling, backscratching, palette-knifing, waxing, buncombing, texturing, wheedling, tooling, sponging . . . subliming, shpritzing, soft-soaping...
...grammar and syntax and went even further, stating that "deliberate alteration of the words uttered by a plaintiff does not equate with knowledge of falsity" for the purpose of meeting the actual malice test for libel suits brought by a public figure. Changing a quotation, Kennedy reasoned, can betray a reckless disregard for the truth only "when the alteration results in a material change in the meaning conveyed by the statement." Whether that sort of alteration happened when Malcolm profiled Masson will now be decided by a trial jury in California...