Word: crapola
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonder if it's possible, just possible, to come to Rock in Rio, to worship at the temple of the Gods of Pop, and really be praying to wilder, more radical spirits. Or if this whole Rock in Rio thing is just another big piece of unredeemable commercial crapola and we are all going to hell anyway...
...trend perhaps started in the late '80s, when Michigan housewife Terry Rakolta crusaded against Married...with Children, elevating the Bundy-family saga from crapola to cause celebre. Now the job of shocking an increasingly unshockable bourgeoisie falls ever more to commercials, ratings stunts like Ally McBeal's--you'll be stunned to see these hot women kissing!--or worse. No one will rank Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? with Roots, yet what good TV program has lately stirred such debate about feminism, money and a holy sacrament...
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