Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Storefront Lawyers (CBS) and The Interns (CBS) both exploit Mod Squad's multihero angle, but neither one is genuinely mod or engrossing. The three attorneys, one a woman, earn their bread by serving a stuffy Los Angeles firm, and their kicks by melodramatically providing legal aid from a ghetto storefront. The five interns, including one female and one black, churn in a centrifuge of subplots as soaperific as any afternoon hospital show...
...goals, the DAS operated within the ever-expanding framework of American capital and aid. While seeking to act in the best interest of their host governments-often advising many of them to beware lopsided agreements with American traders and agencies-the DAS teams continued to tolerate the principle of exploitative American investment and the permissibility of American intervention. To take one striking example, as rendered by Lester E. Gordon,. the present director of the DAS, "We concluded early in the game that Liberia's decision to have foreign investors [Firestone Rubber and Bethlehem Steel] exploit their resources was their...
...ADDITION to defending human goodness in his poems, Blake also expressed, what was for his day, radical anger at the Church and the Government's role in preventing and exploit-ing man's godhead. Ginsberg does full justice to Blake's original poems in a lilting barricades-style song of "The Grey Monk" and a slow funeral dirge of "London...
...obvious reasons, the ability of oil companies with major interests in the Middle East to profit from that demand is in growing doubt. Oil producers with operations in Western Canada-a group that includes Home Oil, Banff Oil and Pacific Petroleums-seem better situated to exploit the prospects. The oil producers exploring off Indonesia, among them Natomas and Asamera, are more speculative. No one can yet tell what their rigs eventually may turn up, and that very mystery excites investors. Volatile Natomas, the biggest gainer of all, recently has been traded so heavily that Paul Hayes, oil analyst at William...
...Venice, where his new movie was shown last week, Author Norman Mailer staunchly came to the defense of Maidstone, which he wrote, directed and, naturally, starred in. Set in a brothel for girls, the film had been criticized by female viewers on the grounds that it exploits women. Retorted the former candidate for mayor of New York: "Exploitation of woman? But it is impossible to exploit her because she has magic powers. I am against the emancipation of women just because I respect them...