Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were knocked down by no less an authority than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. William C. Sullivan, the bureau's No. 3 man, said that there was "no centralized conspiratorial plot stemming from the Communist Party" behind the campus uprisings, although, he said, the Communists had tried to exploit the unrest. And the FBI investigation of the Kent State killings discloses that the Ohio National Guardsmen who opened fire, killing four students, were not surrounded by demonstrators and could have controlled the situation without shooting...
...some time now that the square world has taken over their thing and commercialized it. Films about the revolutionary young are pouring out of major Hollywood studios, while record companies, publishers and the fashion trade are also cashing in on Now. The latest development is that the squares who exploit the hip are in turn being exploited by the radicals. It is a logical development, considering the precedents: black militants have demanded their cut from church collections, and radical N.Y.U. students last spring captured the computer, demanding $100,000 ransom to be used as Black Panther bail money...
...career has he made anything quite as tacky as Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Adapted from an oddly beguiling novel by Marjorie Kellogg (who could be justifiably outraged if she had not written the deadly screenplay herself), Junie Moon is at base an egregious attempt to exploit both sentimental and kinky appetites...
With Hollywood scrambling to exploit every current trend, "soul" movies were probably inevitable. Enter Cotton Comes to Harlem, a meretricious thriller that should offend the sensibilities of any audience-black or white...
Fred Baker's direction is determinedly uninspired, and his actors-with the exception of the alluring Miss Wener-are lackadaisical. What gives Events some small distinction is its sense that young people can be destroyed by the very freedom they cherish and often exploit...