Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the 1890's California agribusinessmen have owned large tracts of land; they have exploited waves of cheap labor pools using the migrant pattern to keep them uneducated, disenfranchised, and paid wages so low that the children must work, perpetuating the cycle. The first farmworkers were Chinese--even then there were attempts to organize, but the growers counterattacked with violence and anti-oriental laws. After the Chinese came Japanese, then Filipinos, Okies, Mexicans, and now, Arabs from Yemen...
...warheads. As clear as these guidelines may have seemed originally, they soon became mired in controversy. The U.S., for instance, has been insisting that the ceilings cover the U.S.S.R.'s new Backfire bomber; the Soviets reject this. In turn, Moscow argues that U.S. aircraft firing cruise missiles-relatively cheap, accurate subsonic drones-be counted against the MIRV quota. Here the U.S. balks, making the Soviets, as an American negotiator puts it, "neuralgic" on the issue of cruises...
...like this occur daily during the busy tourist season at a small town on Martha's Vineyard. The Wamponoag Indian tribe has inhabited Gay Head since at least 2270 B.B. They once owned the town's land; today they earn their keep primarily by running the stands stacked with cheap turquoise rings, moccasins, and drums. When cold weather discourages crowds of tourists, the Indians tighten their belts, earning money from shellfishing or from a few municipal jobs. Although the Wamponoag Indians still dominate Gay Head's population, they now shape their town with a small, but far wealthier, white community...
...also be argued that sex, like any other reality, deserves a role in TV entertainments that purport to portray contemporary life. The real trouble with Soap, a series in which characters exchange sexual partners almost as often as they do wisecracks, is that sex is used only for cheap gags. Television, which routinely trivializes so much of experience, should not be permitted to take the fun out of intimacy...
Such righteousness does not come cheap. The L.A. Times, for instance, carried $1 million in porn-palace ads in the past year, and the New York Times grossed $750,000. But publishers are growing weary of watching their entertainment pages become newsprint versions of Times Square, and of being constantly outsmarted by porn princes. "They brought it on themselves," says C.K. McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento and Fresno Bees. "We tried to police them, but it got too tough. They always had a gimmick." One theater, McClatchy recalls, submitted an ad featuring a woman singing into what appeared...