Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York and Kiev. Then came the shooting down of the Korean plane, and we found ourselves objecting not only to the outrageous action itself but to the way Soviet leaders tried to blame us for what was clearly a major mistake on their part. They decided to exploit the tragedy to build up an atmosphere of tension that they could then use to influence the debate on an entirely different issue, namely the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe. They felt that this tension would favor their purpose in trying to delay or avoid U.S the deployment. I think they...
Last, but perhaps most relevant for our time, would be the argument of some feminists that pornography incites contempt for women and thereby encourages men to exploit and abuse them, as Paul Snider did Dorothy. The correlation (and presumed casual relationship) between media representation of women and their mistreatment has been a prevailing feminist maxim for so long that it has assumed the aura of fact in some circles. Since the '60s there has been an open and often heated debate between people who are fearful of the deleterious effects of erotica and pornography on society and those...
...work, etc. But is this a sufficient excuse for Americans to prevent a woman from being treated as an object of sexual desire and an intelligent human being at the same time? Male idols like Richard Gere, Robert Redford, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Selleck have been able to exploit their masculine appeal without losing control of their lives in the process. Perhaps a society which is capable of viewing men, but not women, on more than one level (i.e., sexual and professional) simultaneously, needs to be enlightened...
...Star 80, the terse, harrowing movie Bob Fosse has made to explain what finally led Snider to murder the one he loved (and kill himself as well). But the words pierce to the heart of the matter as the writer-director sees it. Everyone Dorothy Stratten meets wants to exploit her in some way. Yet in this peculiar moral universe, Fosse suggests, the differences between Hefner (played with slithery menace by Cliff Robertson), Snider and the upscale moviemaker (Roger Rees) who aspires to be her ultimate Pygmalion are more a matter of style than of principles...
...also concede that selling tax-free bonds to pay for the profit earning Medical Area Total Energy Plant may not be totally ethical. But here again the university has broken no law, but rather simply followed the leads of other schools; in fact, Harvard has been relatively slow to exploit the bond market in comparison to ther colleges...