Word: boorishness
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...lobby of the RCA Building--a dreadful kitsch effulgence, by the way--was demolished on Nelson's orders after Rivera slipped in a portrait of Lenin. Okrent is also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things Moderne, Deskey...
...decided to take it out on a whole populace." At the October Fest bar on the Rimini coast, owner Roberto Drudi insists "we have no problem with Germans." He hopes the spat will soon fade, but others fear it won't. "Stefani paraded out the Northern League's old boorish way of talking," says Camillo Brezzi, professor of contemporary history at Siena University. "But it derives from a basic anti-European attitude of this government. They do not see real possibilities for collaborating with their most important partners." French President Jacques Chirac got whomped in February when he said Central...
...there is a limit. And it was crossed Saturday, when the entire Dartmouth side—including parents with young children—chuckled as a few boorish drunks pushed past the boundaries of good taste...
...cast is also dotted with the standard ensemble of excessively colorful characters, played by Guest’s resident troupe of oddities. The standout is once again Fred Willard, whose offensively boorish announcer in 2000’s Best in Show amassed a fair share of critical praise. Here he plays the equally ignorant manager of Hi-Class Productions, who constantly relives the days when he supposedly hosted a game show called “Wha’ Happened? Willard never fails to produce a chuckle every time he attempts to incorporate the show’s titular catchphrase into...
...actions of the two fans at Chicago's Comiskey Park who attacked a first-base coach were "a move rarely expected outside Yankee Stadium" [PEOPLE, Sept. 23]. As a native New Yorker, I am tired of such gratuitous, negative references to New Yorkers, implying that violence, rowdiness or boorish behavior is exclusive to us. I am proud to be a New Yorker and a Yankee fan. John Costanzo New York City