Word: exploitatively
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...That the true spirit of Christmas has long since been overcommercialized and lost forever is an established fact, but Mr. Snyder's plan to exploit his wife's 38-in. bosom has to set a new low for the Christmas card of 1973. Personally, I would rather see Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, and I'll bet the Snyders' friends would...
...give each of the prisoners a new car. There were sure to be other offers, and Pentagon officers sometimes found themselves squirming a bit at the spectacle. President Nixon struck the right note when he said, "This is a time that we should not grandstand it; we should not exploit...
Snob Appeal. It is not by accident that backgammon has been rediscovered. Ten years ago, Prince Alexis ("Obie") Obolensky, a member of the jet set and a shrewd entrepreneur, set out to make backgammon a popular game. Phase 1 of his elaborate strategy was to exploit backgammon's snob appeal. He haunted the posh watering places from Palm Beach to Gstaad, talking up the game. "I made people think they should be doing it, that only the best people were involved," he recalls. "We brought in snobbism. Only in America can that kind of thing be done...
...fiction. Not only did he edit his 300 hours of film down to 12, but he arranged his episodes out of chronological order, beginning with the last day's filming, New Year's Eve, 1971, and then recapitulating the previous seven months. From the first episode, Gilbert tried to exploit the audience's morbid curiosity about marital failure (bred of long years of afternoon suds drama) by making the Louds' separation the touchstone of his story. He counterpoints a painful phone conversation between Bill and Pat four months after their separation by flashing back to a breakfast at the start...
...Crimson led by as many as fifteen points in the first half and eleven in the second, but failed to exploit these advantages well enough to put the game on ice early...