Word: exploitationism
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A New Civilization. Friday morning, at a 5,000-square-foot altar on one of the hills overlooking Kampala, Paul and 50 other bishops and cardinals celebrated an "all-African" Mass to mark the consecration of a dozen black bishops; he urged the new prelates to help create "that new...
Last week Hickel announced a long-term financing plan to help municipalities control water pollution by building up-to-date sewage plants. He has plunged into the Santa Barbara oil-leak fiasco and ruled that offshore drillers must bear unlimited liability for causing pollution and harming marine life-a big...
Such is the slight story of Tropici, a film about modern-day Brazil made by an Italian, Gianni Amico, for Italian television. But the content of Tropici is primarily political: the effects of foreign exploitation on a Third World nation. Amico has correctly realized that traditional narrative, no matter how...
What Tropici does best is record the landscape of foreign business domination. Once we lose Miguel, Tropici is strewn with interesting shots of the billboards that blister the countryside of Brazil, shouting "Texaco" "Ford" "Esso" at the passing cars. But this is rather small accomplishment; it's all there, as...
The present divorce bill introduced by Deputy Loris Fortuna, 45, a happily married Socialist, would "moralize the existing situation." Fortuna's grounds for divorce are impotence, incurable mental illness, a lengthy prison term, exploitation of wife or daughter for prostitution, attempted murder by one's spouse, desertion or...