Word: exploitationism
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The selling power of sex was brought home to the Italian industry by Bitter Rice, a second-rate movie with arty pretensions and a nodding gesture to social problems (the exploitation of women workers in Italy's rice fields). Bitter Rice turned out to be a brilliant showcase for...
By 1922, Lawyer Fine had hung out his shingle in Wilkes-Barre, had enlisted and gone overseas in the A.E.F., studied at Dublin's Trinity College and come home again to Republican county politics. That year, T.R.'s ally, lean, aristocratic Gifford Pinchot, decided to run for governor...
"Better exploitation of river resources, and improvement in the tax structure will also help. Of great importance is the advance by less-developed areas of working conditions, social legislation and the like."
Sharply and concisely, Judge Streit summarized a "heinous, degrading and shocking" picture: "I found that intercollegiate basketball and football at Kentucky have become highly systematized, professionalized and commercialized enterprises. I found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, 'Illegal' recruiting, a reckless disregard of...
M-G-M decided at the conference that Quo Vadis will open this fall-at advanced prices-in theaters the world over (it is now playing only in the U.S. and London); MGM's home-office agents will personally supervise exploitation, e.g., parades of vestal virgins, chariot-borna gladiators...