Word: betraying
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...body." Author Cormier follows with dogged sympathy each shattering assault of the disease, each new influx of fear. When the end comes, LeBlanc has won his victory through silence. He has not cracked. "And he knew he was safe now. There was nothing left in him to betray him. He could...
...Hours' Traffick. If none of the Stratfords is great-too many gimmicky productions betray the fear that the greatest entertainer in the history of the theater is not entertaining enough-they do have the overriding merit of bringing Shakespeare alive for huge audiences. The actors and directors are not smug; seesawing between Shakespeare straight and Shakespeare as straight-man, they remain as restlessly dissatisfied as their customers are satisfied. Above all. the Stratfords have recaptured some of the fluidity of the Elizabethan theater, in which the "two hours' traffick of our stage" was literally true, since scene followed...
...must be close to 80, but he will not admit it. Only his blue eyes tip off his age: occasionally they betray him by watering. But Norman Clyde still has a face that is unlined and a handclasp that can crumple knuckles. Square and solid, he still can carry a 120-lb pack by the hour with his bent-knee shuffle. And he still knows more than any other man alive about the wilds and wonders of the Sierra Nevada, the giant wall of granite that links Nevada and California with some of the most rugged peaks on the continent...
...deserted by 10 p.m. and the houses dark and locked. By day, the Capitol's 80,000 people went about their business nervously. The secret police, guided by Communist instructors imported from Czechoslovakia, were equipped with concealed Czech-made wire recorders, listening for the chance remark that would betray a "Gaullist enemy of the state...
...barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...