Word: exploitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counts over the sale of "The Age of Innocence" by French photographer David Hamilton and 17 counts over the sale of "Radiant Identities" by San Francisco photographer Jock Sturges. Barnes & Noble faces $10,000 fines on each of the 32 counts."We must protect children from those who would exploit their innocence for financial gain under the guise of so-called 'art,'" Pryor said Wednesday. The children exploited in the books were not expected to comment on the case...
...Union is a hardworking, physical team," Allman said. "We will have to be prepared to respond in kind and then exploit that...
Perhaps the American people lost that presumption when they elected and re-elected Bill Clinton, but then again, history tells too many sad stories in which demagogues exploit decent and honest people. The more disturbing indictment of the American people comes from public opinion polls taken since the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal erupted. While polls indicate that the people think Clinton had some sort of sexual relationship with Lewinsky and has been less than honest about it, they also indicate that the people care little about the affair and much more about America's continued peace and prosperity. This dissonance...
...relationship, as the tapes reveal it: someone is the supplicant, and it's not the President. Those of us unlucky enough to remember the late 1960s and early 1970s--before Monica Lewinsky was born--recall the radical-feminist critique of sex as purely a matter of power and exploitation. Under some circumstances the critique seems not so radical. It explains why, for example, professors are enjoined from dating their students. Immaturity and infatuation make you vulnerable, even if you yourself aren't aware of it, and decent people in positions of power do not exploit the vulnerable for kicks. Here...
...only does he unfairly exploit this real and sensitive issue as a cheap emotional trigger, but he is so confident with this ruse that he neglects to actually personify the evil at hand. With forced and belabored "filmmaking," he painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn...