Word: betrayal
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...point there. Bretécher's comic strips, not exactly thigh-slappers, suggest the wry, nervous humor of Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Her typically flabby, potato-nosed men, women and children often discourse eloquently on feminism, Freudianism, environmentalism, Marxism or some other millstone of doctrine, only to betray their soaring words with some bourgeois inconsistency. There is, for example, the porn-film producer who denounces his working class audience as "pigs" and says he panders to them only to help finance the kind of film he pines to make, a "political" film. Or the theater critic who guffaws...
...smooth and unruffled as he had been during the eleven years he spent as a millionaire Washington partygiver and rice broker who liked to hand out money and other favors to American politicians. Staring into the TV lights, he apologized for having inconvenienced his countrymen, promised not to "betray" their expectations and added, "I shall return in good health...
...press, the most dangerous effect of corporate domination has been the pretense of objectivity. The belief in an "objective," unbiased, impartial press is radically wrong. In even the most straight-forward reporting there is always a subtle slant, or room for interpretation, and a newspaper will betray its inclinations in a thousand small ways. We hear that the press must be "objective," because it is "powerful" and can influence "partisan" politics. But the press has never lacked power and political influence; only now power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down...
...high-frequency radar carried aboard the satellite. The Soviets are thought to be trying to develop a radar sharp enough to detect changes in the pattern of plankton life near the oceans' surfaces. Such alterations are caused by the wake of deep-running subs, and thus could betray the presence of the previously untrackable U.S. nuclear deterrent...
...explained the gravity of the matter." The next day one of the bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying to get Pae to take part. "I went through a lot of agonizing soul searching, but I just could not betray my church," Pae says. In Denver, Doren released a letter from Pae giving his "consent" to Doren's consecration and expressing his opinion that the new church should be in communion with Canterbury. But last week Pae denied writing such a document...