Word: exploitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three men want them bad, which is the only way Mickey and Mallory come. A brutish detective (Tom Sizemore) hopes to capture these miscreants and maybe write a best seller about it. A tabloid-TV newsman (Robert Downey Jr.) figures he can exploit their exploits, turning this Mansonized Romeo and Juliet -- 52 murders, no regrets -- into media darlings. A crazed warden (Tommy Lee Jones) is determined to achieve fame as the man who put them to death. It's the ideal recipe for a Stone-crazy parable of greed and abuse. Shake well, pull the pin and stand back...
...really important or whether the local authorities simply find the kid a good person to harass. With Jones on the screen as the ambitious and disgustingly smooth Foltrigg, the film comes briefly to life and the plot begins to fall into place. Foltrigg's underdeveloped part, however, fails to exploit the talents of Jones, who flourished in a similar role in "The Fugitive...
...didn't win by default; it won by design. "The Colombians played right down the middle," says Lalas, "where we were congested. For them it was like shooting a ball through a forest -- you're always going to hit something. We'd win the ball, exploit the space and go out with fast forwards. It's like a fast break in basketball." Ernie Stewart's goal, which put the U.S. up 2-0, was the climax of fleet choreography involving seven intricate passes. Faced with this brisk juggernaut, Colombia turned dyspeptic, seemingly resigned to being humiliated by the U.S. "They...
...continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal, and they own the country's main beer factory. To exploit lucrative foreign-exchange deals, two of the capital's leading families -- the Acras, who come from Syria, and the Bigios, who are of Jewish descent -- have joined forces to buy the local branch of the National Bank of Paris. "Six months from now, when all the small businessmen are dead...
Armed with its findings, Coke set out to address the very real problems that teens face without seeming, on the surface at least, to exploit them. The OK trademark struck company marketers as the ideal solution. "It underpromises," says Lanahan. "It doesn't say, 'This is the next great thing.' It's the flip side of overclaiming, which is what teens perceive a lot of brands do." At the same time, the OK theme attempts to play into the sense of optimism that this generation retains. ("OK-ness," says a campaign slogan, "is the belief that, no matter what, things...