Word: crass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble is that while Americans could be as tickled with Oscar Wilde as he was with them, they were not nearly so amused to be told where to get off-particularly when it was crass and vulgar America that saved England's neck in two world conflicts. England, for her part, has suffered a special kind of embitterment in the loss of world stature and of the control of her economic destiny. No matter. For the past 40 years (except for a momentary glower over Suez) we have remained each other's strongest and closest friend...
Simple or sentimental, the responses to the 1981 Academy Awards proved that even in a crass and fickle realm like Hollywood, one certitude endures: audiences, including show-biz insiders, still love to be moved and to have their spirits lifted. - - By Gerald Gerald Clarke...
...irony surrounding Steinbrenner, then, is that in bringing a winner to New York, his petulance has made winning seem crass. That, to all who cherish the Yankees, not only as winners but as sportsmen, seems a sorry perversion of a proud tradition...
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have a heavy responsibility to speak out--not only on education issues, but also other concerns. They carry, however, an equally weighty duty to speak as informed educators, to avoid appearing to have succumbed to crass lobbying efforts or to have acted before thinking. Matina Horner correctly dissociated her stance from Radcliffe. But given the inevitable connection between an institution and its leader in the public eye, she bore a heavy responsibility to appear thoughtful...
...hatred, has gone into self-imposed exile in Venice; Sebastian becomes a doomed and hopeless alcoholic. "Poor Mummy," he says, when he later learns of her death. "She was a true femme fatale. She killed with a touch." Sebastian's beautiful sister Julia (Quick) meantime marries a crass politician, and Charles, who has become a painter, enters into an unhappy marriage of his own. Ten years later, the two of them meet again on an ocean liner, and Charles loves the sister as he did the brother-on-camera this time. Summing up 12½ hours, Bloom jokingly remarks...