Word: betrayals
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...followed their progress constantly on a large map which he carried." About 7 o'clock two mornings after they arrived, "he took the final positive action of his life. Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed him. Rather than allow it to betray him further, he, who had given what he once described as the gift of death to so many living creatures in his lifetime, loaded the weapon he held and then leaned forward as he placed the stock of his favorite shotgun...
...funny knockabout with an ancient theme, the falling-out of thieves. Three young punks (Jean Claude Brialy, Laurent Terzieff, Franco Interlenghi) flap-foot about Rome, trying to sell some stolen guns (their fence is busy with a funeral), trying to cheat some prostitutes (the girls cheat them), trying to betray one another, trying to impress someone (they don't impress anyone...
...Kassel, Germany, the huntress wears leggings and sandals. Finally. Held detected several pentimenti. or ridges of paint that reveal a painted-over design, on the Getty canvas. These, he said, are "a sign of spontaneous execution characteristic of an original version, while a neat finish that does not betray the trial and error of creation is more typical of a copy or studio version." His conclusion: "The London canvas represents the original conception of the Master, and the Cleveland painting is a fine and certainly quite pleasing and handsome creation of Rubens' studio...
...yourself. The years of silence have been degrading and futile, for today the blinding sun of tor ture lights the whole country. There is not a laugh which sounds right, not a face which does not use makeup to mask anger or fear, not an act which does not betray our disgust and our complicity...
...priest marked for martyrdom-bewildered at the force within him that keeps him from fleeing, shocked when his child spits in his face, agonized while watching "all the hope of the world draining away" in an emptied bottle of wine, despairing as he cries out for a Judas to betray him, collapsing in lip-quivering terror in the face of death. Producer Susskind surrounded Olivier with a supporting cast almost incredible in its depth. George C. Scott was superb as the police lieutenant who destroys his victim with cold intelligence and sympathetic understanding rather than simple brutality. As the slatternly...