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I am about 20 minuted into Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936). There seems to be an undercover detective(?) seemingly doing his job to uncover the identity and the doings of a saboteur. This person seems to be a theatre owner, with a wife(?). The relationship doesn't scream to be happy. The undercover detective seems to be posing as a next-door grocer, and is cosying upto the wife(?) and his smaller brother (the soft spot of the lady, clearly).  My thought was whether the word sabotage here has a double entendre. Whether the "sabotage" here refers to both the larger scheme of political happenings as well as the "sabotage" of the home life of the saboteur (a delightfully ironic twist, I may add).  In any case, if that is not so, I'd like to preserve an alternate reality in where the actions of the detective go beyond the job at hand (read: with adulterous intentions). Having said that, it is a cultural thing too to ponder if outright portrayal of adultery...

  Intern Record : Work Report and Official tasks 1 st June – 4 th June : Settling-In §   Check-in at Greiner Hall: Dorm access card, room keys – till 9 th or 31 st June §   Meeting with Brett Davis of RF (Office on 2 nd floor, Davis) §   Meeting with Jason Tillman: Lab access card – Lab Safety training TBD §   Opening of Bank Account: Bank of America,   Niagara Falls Blvd. 5 th June: Reading about 2DEG and HEMTs 6 th June: 1 st meeting with Professor Singisetti §   Initially – Reading about SLCFET, AlGaO/GaO §   Parallelly – probing and exp. Measurements 7 th June: J-1 orientation with Kara Lanuti, 4 terminal/TLM studied §   J-1 Orientation ·         Taxes: Inquire about Social Security Number and Taxes TBD ·         Travel Validation Signature on DS2019 TBD ·         Submission of Health Insurance Proof...