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Malcolm cannot resist her--he has a sweet tooth that forever betrays him--but he finds her oxymoronic style hard to bear.
Thus the French île reminds us that the word was once spelled isle , from Latin insula; the name of the eight month, Août , reminds us that it came from the Latin augustus; and être betrays its origins as Latin esse with the same orthographical scar.
Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.
The nearby Sé (Cathedral), begun in 1186, betrays its crusading origins with its fortress-like Romanesque style.
But in a chapter entitled—make that titled— Americanisms, the manual betrays both an unseemly nationalistic bias and an ignorance of the history of its own language.