Word: betrayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philosophically, it had been a long march indeed for Ronald Reagan. Just five years ago, when full diplomatic relations were established with China and cut with Taiwan, Candidate Reagan sputtered angrily. He said he had just watched Washington "cold-bloodedly betray a friend for political expediency. The memory will not go away." Maybe not, but it has obviously faded some. Reagan's frothy six days in the country that he used to call "Red China," is his presidency's most important foreign trip by far. Speaking in the Great Hall of the People in Peking, he alluded...
...there is more. Greenfeld's antihero, Larry Lazar, is not a conventionally Philistine tycoon, trampling on the souls of artists. He is an artist, an acclaimed creator of humanistic films who just happens to be, personally, a creep. He would rather betray a friend than lose a deal. When Lazar feels a charitable impulse and gives money to the less fortunate, he connives to get the studio to pay him back. And he is not merely greedy. He is, as a colleague remarks, "an aesthetic hustler" who looks upon every intimate-even his unlamented mother-as movie "material...
Iraq's resort to chemical warfare may betray a growing desperation on the part of Saddam Hussein over Iran's human-wave assaults. Many military observers in the region are expecting an Iranian offensive within the next few weeks that could prove to be the decisive battle of the war. Together the two sides have an estimated 400,000 troops in the battle zone, and the number is increasing. Iran has not yet committed its regular troops to battle, and Iraq has not moved in all its reserves...
MORE REFRESHING than all this is that the yuks betray an intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets...
...addition, Roberts and yardling Dan Simkowitz helped widen the margin, turning in brilliant performances to take the 500-yd, freestyle and the 200-yd backstroke However, this marked a day when diving would betray the aquamen, as their opponents took the top two spots in both the one-and three-meter events...