Word: exploitative
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Lewis said that he would like the College to try to exploit these potential vacancies to increase the number of women and minorities holding masterships...
...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...
...magazine put her on its cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time when black actors rarely had love scenes. Says Darius James, author of the book That's Blaxploitation!: "Pam Grier was one of the first important female action heroes. She was able to both exploit the male libido and assert [physical] power over men." Coffy and Foxy Brown may be shoddy films, but they serve up sex and violence in visceral ways. At the start of Foxy Brown, Grier hides a gun in her bra. It's an image one imagines the young Tarantino appreciated...
AIDS, in its worldwide rampage, has infected over 27.9 people and killed 9.2 million. In its latest frightful exploit, AIDS has infected literature itself. Since stories whose main characters have AIDS end only one way--never happily--their writers are presented with the particularly difficult problem of turning the reader's attention away from the grim plot trajectory and toward the characters' development...
Featuring an excellent backcourt composed of freshmen guards Babe Kwasniak and All-Patriot League candidate George Tatum, the Cadets are expected to play a slow-tempo, half-court game. Running an uncomplicated offense and defense, Army will hope to exploit its physical strength, as well as its excellent mental preparedness...