Like the World War I railroad meltdown, last week's blackout was vast precisely because of the interconnectedness that the network was meant to exploit and foster.
All admissions employees interviewed by The Huffington Post described the widely used method of "finding the pain" in prospective students, a tactic employees said was meant to exploit recruits' past failures in careers or education.
Artists are meant to explore and exploit our national psyche--perhaps it's no accident that Currin and his peers are reaching back to a time when navel and breast gazing was safer than looking outward at the destruction, a time when all bets were off.
Here is a television show that is meant to entertain us by following the exploits of three young, white men who follow a celebrity around leeching off of his money, cars, houses, booze, drugs, and even his female admirers.
Here is a television show that is meant to entertain us by following the exploits of three young, white men who follow a celebrity around leaching off of his money, cars, houses, booze, drugs, and even his female admirers.
Leslye Headland's "Bachelorette," an unfunny female comedy about a troika of hateful bridesmaids led by the reliable Kirsten Dunst, is clearly meant to exploit the "Bridesmaids" phenomena: women talk dirty, have bodily fluids and can turn a movie into a hit!
For most of the previous century, says Mr Quinn, California and the entire West had an "extraction mindset" according to which man was meant to subdue and exploit nature.
California already has some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation, including a ban on assault rifles, but lawmakers said the new bills were meant to plug loopholes exploited by gun manufacturers and owners.
As you explore the city, you are transported to levels that are meant to re-enact the exploits of your fellow soldiers after you were separated at landing.
