Word: crass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunne's telling, Production Chief Richard Zanuck reveals himself as tough, sometimes crass, but possessed of incredible patience. In one fabulous scene, he appears as the New Hollywood haunted by the Old Hollywood, which comes on as a fond, hapless parody of itself. Confronting him in his office are three William Morris agents and a portly director named Henry Koster, who wants to match a 1937 Koster triumph (Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski in A Hundred Men and a Girl) with a new musical concoction. Koster outlines the story. A touring symphony orchestra is about to return...
...Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made a perfunctory appearance before his supporters, said unwontedly little, and left early. Nor, indeed, was there much to celebrate in the bitter post-election atmosphere. Unmistakably, the prime components of Yorty's victory were crass appeals to racism and fear...
...Sunday, the last season games will be over. If the Bruins with their next three games, the first place is theirs. But first place? It's only a little more crass money. It's not The Title and, as the past has proven, it guarantees little more than a spot in the Cup playoffs...
...astrology boom is made up of many elements?including merchandising, show business and crass exploitation of people's credulity. Department stores across the U.S. are mounting astrological promotions. Woolworth's is pushing a full line of zodiacal highball and cocktail glasses and paper napkins. Bulls, goats, crabs and scorpions are beginning to embellish everything from children's clothes to writing paper; St. Crispin in Manhattan is offering its Park Avenue clientele "astronotes" for invitations. One Manhattan beauty parlor boasts a resident astrologer and twelve special hairdos, one for each sign of the zodiac. A perfume manufacturer is doing well with...
...unthinking mouthpiece for Nazi ideology. Kazakh, a purposeless intellectual uncertain about his future or his feelings, has turned from engineering to become a hypnotist and a pioneer in advertising with nouveau riche connections. Curiously, it is Kazakh who comes closest to being a callous cynic. Wirthof, despite his crass behavior in bordellos, his egotistic mistreatment of acquaintances and his sensual brutality, is actually the overemotional romantic...