Word: betrayal
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Some of these pieces of news are immediately good, others are immediately bad. But they're all ultimately problematic in the same way. They all betray the extent to which we have divided our world into dichotomies of us and them...
...whole-heartedness never falters. He, in stiff-legged seaman awkwardness, is always believable, always endearing. He straightforwardly delivers lines like, "We could not be closer to the sea without drowning in it," unaware of their humor. His coastal Irish accent is well done, and his movements and expressions never betray that he is anyone other than a plain fisherman who loves the sea as much as he loves Timothea...
...reasons for the ban appear to be perfectly straightforward, but comments made by Kirkland House Master Donald Pfister last week betray a serious problem in the attitude of some administrators...
...frightening because of the bland face with which it covers its institutionalized psychopathy. Du Toit is subjected to steadily escalating harassment. Eventually he loses his job and his wife (Janet Suzman in a good, dour performance), and he must deal with the fact that his daughter is willing to betray him to the police...
...part, too, it was a matter of paranoia. Hitler suspected that Churchill fought on largely because he hoped to inveigle Stalin into joining him. And Hitler was himself so treacherous that he could not believe Stalin was not planning to betray him. Stalin intensified those suspicions by his own aggressiveness. On virtually the day the Germans occupied Paris, the Soviets seized the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. A few weeks after that, they demanded and got Rumania to give up its provinces of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Hitler saw this as a threat to his access to Rumania...