Word: betraying
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When asked about Nathans, former colleaguesspeak in tones that betray awe. Known by thenickname "Ibby," the Vassar College graduate iswell-known for reporting to campus before 7 a.m.on some workdays and for always wearing a beeper,two practices she plans to continue at Harvard...
When asked about Nathans, former colleaguesspeak in tones that betray awe. Known by thenickname "Ibby," the Vassar College graduate iswell-known for reporting to campus before 7 a.m.on some workdays and for always wearing a beeper,two practices she plans to continue at Harvard...
...small. Their movies are dyspeptic miniatures: people sitting at a kitchen table, silent, sullen, waiting for the worst. Everybody, on both sides of the camera, has the glums. The camerabatic dazzle of, say, the French New Wave is now politically incorrect -- as if displaying any effervescence of imagination would betray a yearning for Hollywood's technical and narrative know-how. So the European cinema has aged like a movie star who retired decades ago. The question isn't even, "When did she die?" Instead it's, "Oh, is she still alive...
Some of Gorbachev's assessments betray wishful thinking about what might have been. He blames the August coup attempt for making any efforts to overhaul the Communist Party and introduce a more measured program of market reforms "impossible." The putsch certainly accelerated the breakup of the Soviet state, but it is debatable whether Gorbachev would have achieved either aim had the hard-liners not made their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev...
Valmont encounters and subdues several women, from the naive Cecile Volanges (Bina Martin) to the promiscuous courtesan, Emilie (Danielle Kwatinetz). His primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates...