Word: deceitfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Betrayal chronicles an affair, in reverse. Beginning several years after the end of the affair and ending when it begins, the play provides an agonizing look at modern relationships. It is a minute examination of the deceit two lovers, Emma and Jerry, practice with their spouses, each other and themselves...
...partners in Betrayal's deceit are Emma (played by Jill Rachel Morris) and Jerry (Danny Vanderryn). Morris, who has much of the finesse and all of the wardrobe which the part requires, nonetheless gives a spotty performance. In some scenes, she performs with passionate intensity; in others, particularly the opening scene, she delivers her lines with remarkable flatness. Morris fails to convey the difference between being cold and being unemotional. But she does succeed in capturing the play's bitter spirit, in drawing the audience into the problems of the relationship...
...Iranin moderates--looks like standard Administration policy. Of course cheap politics is all too thoroughly American; but with an issue such as drugs, where so much uncontroversial good could have been done, a scrupulous Chief Executive would have restrained his base political urges. Further, such relatively routine cases of deceit and hypocrisy--which do a nice job of warping leaders' values--serve to bridge the gap between simple political manipulation and Iran-contra affairs...
...recently released book, "Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment," by Gary Taubes '77 depicts the competitive nature of the field of research physics...
...others, the switch pointed to dismaying presidential fuzziness, if not outright deceit, about a vital matter of foreign policy. Scoffed one Senator: "The President can't remember which version is true and which is the cover story." The lawmaker added that Reagan's memory has noticeably deteriorated; just before his prostate surgery in January, he approved a major intelligence "finding," but two weeks later could not remember...