Word: basest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abide by the law, how do we expect the disadvantaged not to break the law?" Says Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois: "I guess what bothers me is that we are talking about privileged people, people with the best educations who seem to have the basest motives -- get what they can and to hell with the rest of society...
...street: it often required knowledge of two languages to understand their puns. The punks require no such education. Anyone who is willing to endure the disgusted stares of his parents can be a punk. Through punk, one can experience Duchamp's "blank force" of protest at its basest level. Because punk is a fashion, it will surely fade away eventually. But because almost everyone in the country has at least a vague idea of what punk looks like--if not what it is--punk will not fade as completely as Dada has. Even many years from now someone will...
Inevitably, Levine comes in for his share of criticism; on its basest level, he is booed with surprising frequency by a vocal minority at the Met when he takes his post-performance bows. Levine's tempos can be brisk to the point of hastiness, and in his enthusiasm for the music he often lets the sound of the orchestra overwhelm the singers, swamping them amid Wagnerian brass fortissimos or with the urgent sweep of passionate Verdian strings. Even the Met orchestra musicians, who are generally enthusiastic about their conductor, complain. Sometimes after a performance they leave informal, anonymous critiques...
...populated by a floating rep company of actors, including William Daniels and the extraordinary Ed Flanders, that may be the best on the box. The show has speed, humor and diligence about even the most melodramatic of its plots, and displays the same kind of unblemished idealism about the basest narrative hokum that Actor David Morse catches so nicely in his characterization of a young intern...
...THEIR ART, the English have always had a knack for electroplating the basest metal with silvery gentility and presenting it like the finest tea service. This wonderful alloy of nastiness and reserve is the stuff of such typical British products as Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Agatha Christie's drawing room whodunits. Monty Python, and Evelyn Waugh, Brimstone and Treadestems from this tradition of black comedy, but departs from it by crossing over the boundary between laughter and darkness once too often. The result, while disturbing and thought-provoking, is ultimately unsatisfactory...