Word: exploitatively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exceedingly various" experiences in the arts and skills. The show is aimed, says Spokesman Alistair Cooke, at middlebrow audiences. What gives the program its theoretical latitude is the fact that it was designed (and is supported) by the Ford Foundation, whose object is not money but an attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic...
...more theater man than playwright, he has a way, whether with a scene's falling apart or a character's fate, of being saved by the bell - by someone on the phone or someone at the door. He seems less to chronicle suffering than to exploit it. But he respects the rules, he scrupulously obeys the sign reading No Unhappiness Permitted After 10:45 p.m., even if it entails the most false and banal of endings...
...brought 800 million people under its sway (up from 190 million only a few years ago), the Soviet Union now hopes that "the free world-crowded back on its own defenses-may be led to fall into factions and prey upon itself." The Communists could be counted on to exploit this possibility to the hilt-by wooing and threatening America's allies away from their allegiance. In the U.S., the Reds will appeal to "every smoldering prejudice," warning "with sly insinuation against British imperialism and German neo-Naziism, against the resurgence of Japanese trading combines or France...
...Exploit the Mid dle East...
Reflecting the extreme nationalism now dominant in the country, the bill sets up the Brazilian Petroleum Corp. (Petrobrás) as a government monopoly operating under the supervision of the National Petroleum Council. Petrobrás will have the sole right to explore, exploit, refine and distribute the country's oil. The five U.S. and British companies now importing and distributing oil and byproducts may continue to do so. But aside from that, foreigners are out. The government will hold 51% or more of the monopoly's $500 million stock; no foreigners and no Brazilian married...