But women were probably not hunters, and so they must have manipulated men with sexual favors to bringing home a blood-soaked dinner.
But I would like to point out that tears engineered this crudely are not emotions honestly earned, that the most cynical dictators, as Pauline Kael used to say, have manipulated emotions with the same kind of kitsch appeal to gut feelings.
Anti-rape activists, she contends, have manipulated statistics to frighten college women with a nonexistent "epidemic" of rape, date rape, and sexual harassment, and have encouraged them to view "everyday experience"—sexist jokes, professorial leers, men's straying hands and other body parts—as intolerable insults and assaults.
The traders are alleged to have manipulated power prices to make money with their financial swap positions, causing losses for rival power traders of $139m and winning the bank $34.9m.
The prosecution claimed that Mr Harris had "manipulated publicity" with his daily "staged, slow walk" into court past photographers with his entourage that included wife, Alwen, and daughter, Bindi, in a show of family support for the man who steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.
By the beginning of April an investigation by the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) where most of the work had been carried out found the lead author Haruko Obokata guilty of misconduct for having manipulated data with the intent to deceive.
Yes, the food industry really has manipulated us with foods engineered to specifications born of functional MRI scans.
The voice of reason on Larry King's show, Smith argued that Woods had "manipulated" everyone with his lies about his behavior.
I was out shopping with the family and had manipulated a situation with the younger one asleep in his buggy and the elder one playing computer games in a creche.
Erdogan has manipulated the media with economic levers to gain more favorable treatment — just like every other Turkish political party has done over long decades.
