Word: sellout
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...SELLOUT results from the promotional exploitation of the use of this telepathic ability. Scanners can give pain to the person being tapped, can literally blow him to bits by holding on long enough--a good little shock. Similar techniques were featured in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Brian De Palma's The Fury. The latter used the effect most spectacularly, with ten camera angles, when John Cassavettes turned to ripe tomatoes all over the dining room walls. But Cronenberg is a terrible director when it comes to shocks and thrills. He uses this effect once...
...years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled in May, he hoped to strengthen his Democratic Unionists against the bigger but less dogmatic Official Unionist Party...
...hostages yet ultimately negotiated their release with the nation they called "the Great Satan." On the other side were the moderate supporters of President Abolhassan Banisadr, who had long called for an end to the crisis but now denounced the deal with Washington as a humiliating national sellout. In the wings lingered Iran's pro-Moscow Communists, temporarily in league with the right-wing mullahs but waiting for economic and political chaos to make the country ripe for a Soviet-sponsored takeover...
...really served or betrayed the revolution?" So asked a senior Iranian politician as a debate began in Tehran-remarkably like the one in Washington-over whether the hostage deal was honorable, as claimed by the fundamentalist clergymen who negotiated it, or a sellout of the national interest. Similar questions were pointedly put to Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, when he spelled out the terms of the agreement on Tehran radio. An Iranian phoned to ask him: If the hostages were spies, why were they not tried? If they were not spies, why were they arrested...
...years ago, this would have been a classic. A sure sellout--get your tickets early and don't forget the megaphone. The Boston University hockey team at Harvard, faceoff at 7:30. Hang around later for the fight outside Watson Rink...