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This nebulous quality ultimately makes the characters baffling. Women are at once narcissistic and manipulative as well as sturdy, realistic survivors. Men are both fatherly providers and wicked seducers. Critic Leslie Fiedler, who is faithful to All My Children, theorizes that soaps are antimale. "First, they show how men exploit women, and second, in a crisis the men are impotent." This may help explain the soaps' unique aspect. Nowhere else in life or drama are both men and women seen to be equally interested in emotional relationships. Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who frequently watches the soaps with the blue-collar...
...stand-in for the story's narrator, a slightly dazed sounding board for the wild ideas and adventures of Danny Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine). These two shopworn soldiers of fortune, after time in Her Majesty's forces, set out on their grandest exploit: to become kings of the remote country of Kafiristan, a primitive land in a far corner of Afghanistan. "They have two-and-thirty heathen idols there," Danny announces. "We'll be the thirty-third and -fourth...
...economic diversification. The reliance on a single crop or mineral for export earnings painfully exposes many poor countries to erratic swings in the price of raw materials. Still, while trade relations are not always equitable, it is highly debatable whether the First World has really been using trade to exploit the developing countries. If that were so, notes British Economist P.T. Bauer, then nations like Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil and South Korea, which are the most involved in extensive foreign trade, would not have become the most prosperous LDCs. Bauer rightly points out that the poorest states are "those with...
...desperately needs the extra revenue an advertising supplement can bring in. But I expected a newspaper like yours--one with intelligent writers and an unusually well-informed radical viewpoint--to come up with something more provocative. Not only don't you attack the sickening commercial aspects of Christmas, you exploit them...
While thus dispensing general guidance, Federated gives its divisions wide latitude to follow whatever merchandising strategies best cater to widely varying styles, tastes and incomes in each store's territory. In particular, Cincinnati headquarters has allowed Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale...