Word: exploitations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Percy extends the metaphor to man. We all drink the water. We're all zonked out on our separate somas. But Percy's kiddie-porn portrait shocks without edifying. The metaphor, a valid one, is too sensationally packaged. Why stoop to conquer? Why exploit to elevate? Percy's better than this...
...pediatrician, both 41, and the no less compelling attachment of Whitehead, 29, and her husband Richard, 37, a sanitation worker. It savagely peered into problems of the Whitehead household -- his battle with alcoholism, their financial setbacks -- that raised doubts about whether surrogacy permits the more prosperous and sophisticated to exploit those who are less so. It offered the dismaying court spectacle of a mental-health expert disparaging Whitehead's skills as a mother because of how she played pat-a-cake...
...that puzzle is revealed, moral as well as psychological tumblers fall into place. Director Rademakers is both a careful craftsman and a careful moralist, a man who has the time to pause over the ambiguous nuances of human behavior under pressure and the skill as a filmmaker to exploit them. No fictional film of recent years has more successfully explored the terrain around that crossroad where personal history and megahistory intersect. None has more persuasively placed us inside the skin of man caught in its conflicting, unpoliced traffic...
...exquisite timing of Gorbachev's proposal is suspect. Coming just two days after the release of the Tower commission's scathing review of the Reagan Administration's bungled arms-for-hostages policy, the offer was sure to appear attractive to an embattled President. Moreover, the announcement seemed timed to exploit disagreements within the NATO alliance over Washington's broad interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty...
...Phasing out those payments is kind of like phasing out the robbery of a 7-Eleven," chortled ex-Governor White. Democrats hope to exploit the issue in the difficult budget battles that face the recession-plagued state by charging that Clements has proposed a freeze on educationfunding while appearing to care more about helping football players...