Word: exploitationers
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ITALY Drive-by Killing Two men on a motorcycle shot dead government labor law adviser Marco Biagi on the street in the northern city of Bologna, and raised the specter of renewed urban terrorism. The day after Biagi's murder an offshoot of the Red Brigades movement, which was responsible...
Yet there are few valid arguments as to why we should be involved in this fight; the justifications offered in support of marijuana prohibition crumble under scrutiny. Rhetoric has eclipsed logic, and the debate over the decriminalization of marijuana has devolved into a farce of political grandstanding and exploitation.
In his glory years (1946-57), Jones directed about 100 cartoons, seven-minute mini-masterpieces of character shading and comic subtlety. Along with scriptwriter Michael Maltese, he created the bon-vivant skunk Pepe Le Pew, the beep-beep Road Runner and his perennially flummoxed pursuer Wile E. Coyote. They devised...
The exploitation of patriotic sentiment for private gain is hardly new. But the attacks were a national tragedy, one that demands a quiet determination to remember those who died. Commercializing their sacrifices is a sure way of turning the ineffable into the merely ordinary--and making something ordinary is the...
The unfortunate result of Solondz’s self-indulgence and revenge tactics is that both sections of the film fall flat and stay on the surface of the issue that is at the heart of his filmmaking: exploitation. Storytelling is a misstep for Solondz, but even on his off...