Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keetchie's is the only real aspect of the tragedy which we see. There is no sense of the whole society suffering together from its need to perpetually exploit itself, because very little of the whole society is shown. To be sure, the thieves are a little society in themselves, but we never see the people who are really robbed, the people behind the bankers who, for instance, are presumably losing their money in bank closures about this time...
Most Democrats are baffled about how best to exploit this unique circumstance. They worry about whether their party's most effective course is to try to make capital out of the possible impeachment proceedings or make a show of ignoring it under the pretense of solemn nonpartisanship. Lately, Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss has been trying a bit of both strategies...
...merely reading about the slightly less barren lives of the momentarily famous offers a thrill. Time Inc., in keeping with its corporate tradition, has decided to profit from this sad situation. Peoplecertainly does little to improve the content of its audience's existence. Rather, it is an effort to exploit the sorry state of victims with 35 cents burning a hole in their pocket...
Free Beer. One creative exploit led to another in a can-you-topless-this spirit of competition. At the University of South Carolina, a streaker entered the campus library and asked to check out The Naked Ape. Responding to a Knoxville tavern owner's offer of a free supply of beer to the first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland...
...down,' " says Crew Member Patrick Baron. Roughneck Leo Cariou, a veteran of 14 years in oilfields round the world, explains: "It's part adventure, part backbreaking toil, a big part loneliness. We are the adventurers of the energy business, and the oceans are our last frontier to exploit." That is a notion not often expressed here on the barge; the relentless search for oil affords time for little but the mind-numbing and muscle-aching work that grinds along in hopes of the big payoff...