Word: betrayals
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...lapse into stereotype, the photography in Dry Summer and the rich life it captures are worth seeing. Several scenes display a remarkable degree of sophistication, especially the objective-subjective shots that show what Ossman is looking at from his own perspective. They lead you into his character, and then betray any sympathy you might have for him. The close-ups of peasants' faces are remarkable, and the luxuriant music of the bazouki and oud for more traditional scenes are deftly juxtaposed against the modern, atonal percussive mixture for chase-scenes and night shots...
President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon may betray questionable judgment. There is no question of its constitutionality. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment...
...Committee, a group of faculty, administrators, students and alumni chosen by Bok and Horner to consider the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship and make recommendations. One thing is fairly certain: Radcliffe will not agree to a merger that guarantees anything less than sex-blind admissions. To do otherwise would be to betray Radcliffe...
...horror, everyone of the men in the room said yes. The study touched a sore point with many of the women. How were we to resolve this conflict in our lives, how were we to be wife and mother, respected as women, and not betray our intellectual and achievement-oriented selves? Harvard gave us no clue on this point, no hint as to how other women had solved the dilemma, for we never saw successful women, never saw women at all. There was no guidance, no role-models...
...there is no surface reason for not telling the truth, but he has persuaded an entire generation of theatergoers that people are not necessarily telling the truth, even when they have no reason for not doing so. He broke the first rule of the theater: that you do not betray the audience...