Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they're fightin tooth and claw to wipe it out. Jesus freaks are nothin compared to narcs, and especially local narcs. They're bible totin statute quotin freaks and in my opinion they are the lowest type of scumbag because they'll get in with you and then betray you. The only character out of the Bible they forget to cite is Judas...
Senator McGovern later faltered when he appeared in the Eagleton affair to betray the honesty he had earlier exemplified. But that honesty, not the plots of CREEP, won him the nomination. The Nixon campaign's dirty tricks did not determine the Democratic outcome. They did make it harder to unify the Democratic Party. And the cover-up of the pervasive corruption of the administration did deprive the American people of the knowledge that, according to recent polls, would have led them to reassess the relative merit of the candidates and reverse their verdict despite their misgivings about Senator McGovern...
CHARLIE IS A cliche-monger, a master of the canned phrase--even when talking to himself. He compulsively wants to be liked by everybody because he so hates himself; he'll betray anyone when he's drunk or behind closed doors. His bar talk is full of clinging, self-conscious poses--the manner that the most pathetic clowners acquire in adolescence: They learn to copy bravado, but are sensitive enough to see its hollowness. They end up parodying themselves. Charlie's caught between outside pressure to conform to what traditionally held the neighborhood together, and peer pressure; between the pillars...
...surrender by compromise on the Jackson amendment [Oct. 1] would be to betray and seal the fate of the many Sakharovs, the countless brave men and women of the U.S.S.R. who have put their necks out for the freedom that we always shout about and supposedly fight wars for. Shame on you for suggesting compromise...
...those still alive. Bergman's most recent film, in color, with brilliant cinematography by Sven Nykvist. 1972. The Naked Night. During a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each trying to betray the other. The film (whose original Swedish title means "The Clown's Evening") is Bergman's first masterpiece. Many people interpret it as being totally pessimistic, but its ending (the pair walking in silence alongside the caravan) and the memories of the clown, Frost (in the flashback near the beginning and when Frost relates...