Word: exploitationism
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Ever since his flippant remark three weeks ago about the presence of "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" (see ESSAY) on his coal-leasing commission, Watt's chances of staying in office have ebbed almost daily. The Secretary long ago alienated the left and center with...
Typically enough, Detroit's upheaval started with a routine police action. Seven weeks ago, in the Virginia Park section of the West Side, a "blind pig" (afterhours club) opened for business on Twelfth Street, styling itself the "United Community League for Civic Action." Along with the booze that it...
Determined exploitation of humor by politicians probably started after Adlai Stevenson and then John Kennedy used quips to charm the press and public. "In America," said Stevenson, who lost the presidency twice, "any boy may become President, and I suppose that's just the risk he takes." During the...
"The next logical step": that is what NASA planners are calling their dream of a permanent manned station in orbit. Such a development, they argue, would help bring about the era of cheap and easily accessible exploitation of space for science, technology development and commerce. Yet while NASA is still...
Staying Alive doesn't make it anywhere: not as character study, not as an ersatz Chorus Line, not even as a canny exploitation of the good will engendered by Saturday Night Fever. Six years after Tony crossed the Brooklyn Bridge into the city of everyone's tattered dreams...