Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, TASS, the official Soviet news agency, used Reagan's remarks to exploit the swelling movement of neutralism and pacifism in Europe that is suspicious of U.S. intentions. Declared TASS: "The U.S. would like Western Europe to face all the risks of a thermonuclear catastrophe while the U.S. keeps away from...
...much to heart. During his tenure, he transformed the Met into a focal point of the art world and the public, performing feats of public relations with practiced deftness. He never hesitated to acquire art, often by questionable means, and enjoyed paying handsomely for his sport. His most notable exploit was the acquisition, in 1972, of the Calyx Crater, a large Greek urn of dubious origin and value, for which the museum generously paid $1 million, plus $300,000 in coins...
...King of the Confessors, Hoving details an earlier exploit: A three-year chase after an ivory Romanesque cross. Despite the warnings of colleagues that the cross might prove a forgery, Hoving, inspired by the descriptions of its incriptions, begins to track it down in 1960. The owner of the cross, a greasy Yugoslav with the unlikely name of Ante Topic Mimara, finally lets Hoving see the piece, and its beauty confounds him. Then, the hard part: The Met, where Hoving is assistant curator of the Medieval Department and the Cloisters, must outlast the competition and fork over...
...production maintains overall. Ernest Kearns' Mr. Peachum has all the disgusting elements of the petit-bourgeois, and Kearns presents Peachum with a clear understanding of the action-provoking role. Because of the flatness with which Kearns delivers statements sympathetic to Brecht--"The law was made for the rich to exploit those who don't understand it"--he maintains distance from his character. In his dryness and his logic, his running about and his posing, Kearns reduces the "Beggar's Friend" to a common demoninator, strips him down to the essential. In the simple statement, "Justice gives way to humanity," Kearns...
...other backers of the mujahedin, Karmal claims, are not really interested in a Soviet pullout: "The forces of hegemonism and imperialism do not want the contingent to withdraw. Why? Because for them the continued presence here of our friends is a pretext that they can exploit against the Soviet Union...