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Perhaps these movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...
Administration officials believe that the militants holding the hostages might have directed their allies in the U.S. to stage their demonstration with the hope of landing in jail. This would have given extremist Islamic factions in Iran a cause to exploit and so continue to discredit any efforts by President Abolhassan Banisadr, a relative moderate, to release the hostages. The militants also might be maneuvering to prevent an attempt by their clerical leaders to resolve the crisis. In London, where Iranians have demonstrated against the U.S. and been arrested, Scotland Yard also thinks that militants in Tehran might have been...
Elam based his decision mainly on testimony from Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College in New York, saying that Hacker showed that the film demonstrated "the frightening effect of power in the hands of a single person, how power was used to emasculate, debase and exploit sexually...
...page statement explaining that they did not condone censorship and arrests. The people in the saga who acted with the purest motives ended up in worst shape; defending themselves against the charge that they had caused the arrest of two fellow students, Quincy House feminists had no time to exploit the energy and fervor they had raised in the days before the showing...
Both Detroit and the G.O.P. are out to exploit each other, and make no bones about it. Coleman A. Young, Detroit's shrewd and aggressive mayor, hopes to use the convention to prove to the nation that his town is, as its boosters have been boasting, a city in the midst of a revival. He is well aware of the risk in seizing the national spotlight, if only for a week. "We have our warts," Young says with typical candor, "and we see them too." Republican Party leaders, in turn, hope to use Detroit as a theatrical backdrop in their...