Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supercilious, silly intellectual," he declares, recalling an army exploit in which he turned over his sergeant's house trailer (with the man's wife inside) and destroyed all of the NCO Club furniture. "I was mean as only an intellectual can be mean in confronting the threateningly democratic, over-bureaucratized army." A demonic grin flashes quietly across Sloan's face. "Yes, I'm a revolutionary. But I stopped my revolution because nobody joined...
...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...
...Sparkish, Christopher Harding speaks in a falsetto and moves with a flourish which fully exploit the affectations of his role. He offers an excellent contrast to Pinchwife, played by Richard Minturn, who makes his face a sour, frowning mask that states his personality. Pinchwife is as overly protective of his wife's honor as Sparkish is negligent of Alithea's. Keeping his country wife under lock and key. Pinchwife confidently declares, "I understand the town." The audience takes enormous delight when the young, inexperienced Margery defeats the old coot, who thinks himself so wise...
...meeting with a group of college journalism students, Mitchell, answering a question on the possibility that "external groups" might try to exploit the demonstration, said, "The answer is a definite yes. There is no question in my mind that some of the individuals who will participate in some of those activities are inspired by outside interests...
...director of Figaro, David Bartholomew, has tried hard to exploit the meager theatrical possibilities in the opera, and succeeded in producing a decent acting performance from a cast of singers-a difficult job. But the Leverett House production would have done better if it hadn't tried to create theatre where none exists. A garbled translation into lackluster prose is just not enough basis for a theatrical blockbuster...