Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was also tough talk in Washington as the Carter Administration stepped up its criticism of Moscow for meddling in Africa. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski harshly denounced the Soviets for violating the "code of detente" and for making a "shortsighted attempt to exploit global difficulties." Brzezinski and other U.S. officials maintained, in the face of Soviet and Cuban denials, that the rebels who invaded Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba province last month had been trained by Cuban troops and equipped by Moscow. Insisted a White House aide: "We've got the goods on them...
Director Peter Hyams' script does its best to exploit the latest fashions in paranoia. There are interwoven conspiracies and cover-ups; every U.S. Government official on view is a venal scoundrel. Hyams' cynical fantasies about the space program are an especially amusing treat. He suggests, with malicious wit, that NASA'S space walks could actually have taken place on Earth: indeed, he demonstrates that for the price of a video camera and a few buckets of sand, any American can take a giant step for mankind in the privacy of his own home...
...Jerusalem. The problems facing overpopulated Egypt-poverty, inflation, corruption, inadequate housing and public transport-are so enormous that no government can begin to solve them, at least in the short run. Now that Sadat's peace initiative has stalled, critics of his pro-American policy are starting to exploit the country's endemic problems as a way of rallying the opposition...
...package publishers who may be soon calling books "entertainment systems," everybody aboard The Train Robbers appears to have it both ways. Even the reader, who can spook himself with the thought that the SS rides again or ignore this specter and still get a doughty account of a daring exploit...
...many questions are answered by this production of Measure for Measure. The play, however, is a remarkable first venture, a well-performed play despite its direction. The Pudding theater is a good stage for any group to exploit, more comfortable and ample for the audience than Agassiz, for instance. An organization devoted to Shakespeare is not a bad idea, either. The bard is in no way too rarefied for rah-rah spirit. And great plays should be as accessible and as polished as possible; even when full potential is not reached, the production is always interesting in the true sense...