Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Authorities made clear that the testimony of strangers is not enough. It is a citizen's duty to betray his own kith and kin. The Zhou clan, willingly or by coercion, did its duty. Zhou Fengsuo, 22, a physics student at Qinghua University in Beijing, was among the 21 student leaders named by officials last Tuesday as the country's most-wanted criminals. The next night on television, Zhou was shown being led into a police station for interrogation. The scene then shifted to the home of Zhou Yanrong, the student's sister. Dandling a baby...
...believe in frontiers," reflects Gigli. Explains Carla Sozzani, a business associate of the designer's: "Romeo's all for 1992 and a united Europe." Valentino has announced some similar geopolitical aims. "I am going to Paris as an Italian designer to speak for Italy," he says. "I will never betray my country, but I need the challenge to do better." Elaborates Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino's partner: "Rome is becoming a very provincial market, and it's simply not stimulating the creator...
...cassette, Koskotas heard the fright in the caller's voice. It was an echo of his own fears. Mantzouranis had an important message to pass on: Koutsogiorgas wants to be certain the prisoner knows what he is doing. "Menios says," the voice from Greece emphasized, "that George should not betray the only people who can help him now." Koskotas pondered silently and for a second felt a twinge of his old power. Then he dismissed the warning. He wanted to talk...
...flaws in Hampton's logic are particularly disturbing because they betray a widely held belief that homosexual relations somehow "hurt" others. This reasoning is an implicit approval of the violent actions against gays epitomized by this murder...
Still, Testimony is a powerful drama, the tragedy of a man who had to betray himself in order to survive. "The filmmakers did not make a saint of Shostakovich," observes Volkov of the movie. "There are no saints in real life. He is shown as a man forced to compromise on minor things to save himself for more important things." It is a Faustian bargain few composers would like to face, even if they could write a lifetime of masterpieces in return...