Word: faithlessness
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...learn nothing of the Hunnicutt character, for instance, except that she is sophisticated and looks fine in percale. And although the errant husband played by Rogers telephones hearty lies back to America each evening, nothing is established about his betrayed wife. Is she dull, interesting, ugly, beautiful, loyal, faithless, a drudge, a scholar, a rock guitarist? To know these things would be to know much more about her husband, and a line or two would have provided a sketch...
Meanwhile South African government officials reacted to the statements by Young and Carter with rage. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, formerly his country's Ambassador to Washington, denounced the U.S. as a "faithless friend" and as Pretoria's "No. 1 enemy," and accused Carter of demanding from South Africa a standard that it would not expect from black Africa. As for an arms embargo, Botha contended that South Africa's arms industry was strong enough to overcome any sanctions. Said he: "I think the superpowers, if they want to overcome us, will have to do it with...
Having dragged the viewer through the police investigation and voice-over readings of the letters written to Schneider from her lover on the lam, Chabrol finally throws in some new twists. Steiger resurfaces out of nowhere, savoring the confrontation with his faithless wife as he relates how he foiled her best-laid plans to do him in. Watching the would-be widow get her just desserts restores a sense of justice to the film, but here the structure of the story shows its first signs of coming a cropper. Chabrol chooses to dwell on Steiger's triumph for several more...
Hannah wants the chance but, as Martin shows, cannot have it. A brief affair with a charming but faithless acquaintance ends badly-and produces most of the novel's few patches of uncertain writing. Hannah's lover "begins to play on her body like a musician on an instrument" - a cliche that strikes a discordant note no matter what the tune...
...party. The electors of the winning party are authorized to cast all of their state's votes (a total equal to the number of its Congressmen and Senators) for their candidate. But they are not legally bound to do so. In each of the past five elections, one "faithless elector" has cast his ballot for someone else...