Word: betrayal
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They wear the insigne of the ace of spades, card of death, on their olive-drab flight suits, and they speak with studied confidence of their assignment. They are, after all, among the best trained pilots in the Marine Corps, and they would hardly betray anxiety over the risks of flying anything, much less a nifty little plane designed to revolutionize naval aviation. In the placid calm of the ready room of Marine Attack Squadron 231 at Cherry Point, N.C., Captain Cliff Dunn, 33, declares: "We're fairly convinced there's nothing wrong with the plane. We wouldn...
...youthful hero playing all those last crucial shots, just as if he had been playing an ordinary game. He did not hurry; he did not linger: there was a briskness and decisiveness about every movement, and whatever he may have felt, he did not betray it by as much as the movement of an eyelash. Yet he did not play as one in a dream, as people sometimes do at supreme crises: he was just entirely calm and entirely natural...
...excuse for certain kinds of behavior. Kissinger made policy, he was in a position to choose, to weigh the factors of law, morality, and a commitment to values of human life and freedom from oppression. He chose, he acted; and he did so in such a way as to betray fundamental universal principles of law, of respect for life and regard for the right of people to determine their own destiny...
...officers have studied every possible escape route through river, canal, drainage ditch and cow trail. They are familiar with the telltale habits of their quarry. Most aliens are hungry, dirty, and walk with a nervous gait. Their clothes may betray them. On the wall in Lomblot's office, a big picture frame encloses types of Mexican and American shoe heels so that an agent can tell the difference at a glance...
...lipstick, mascara, brushing her hair back in the mirror or a car floating eerily through blue space. Traditionally in cinema such mirror shots lay bare the unconscious bourgeois fantasies of the proletariat. Fassbinder understands this and makes exceptional use of the image to emphasize his belief that "All classes betray their own character and favor the next higher. That's why we can wait a very long time for a real revolution in this world...