Word: crass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials in Washington, asserts Peters, are mainly concerned with their own survival and advancement. To that end, they all plug into "survival networks," exchanging favors to ensure that they will stay in power no matter what work they do or fail to do. Usually nothing so crass as a quid pro quo is involved, much less outright bribery, just an atmosphere of mutual backscratching...
Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has even likened the emigration to desertion from the army. Other critics contend that those going to the U.S. are motivated by the most crass materialism. One comment in the Jerusalem Post last week was typical: "They want to be lulled into nirvana by the hum of a six-cylinder auto engine, the whir of a food processor and the strains of an expensive stereo. They want to come home from work and be pampered, to make a lot of money and stop caring...
...accept: a nation that has always cherished a self-congratulatory illusion that it could be all things to all who appeared at the front door must now have the character to make the sort of serious choices that might leave America seeming as vulnerable and diminished and woefully crass as the rest of the world...
NINETY PER CENT of everything is crap," Theodore Sturgeon, the science fiction author, once observed, and that analysis certainly holds true for science fiction's third cousin, electronic music. With electronic music--and in particular with synthesizers--so many people working within the idiom are crass imitators of others' modest successes...
...Cruising develops into a leather-coated cat-and-mouse story, Friedkin's strange perceptions of New York cops become clearer. They are crass morons as he presents them, maligning the cruisers and transvestites, raiding apartments at the wrong time, busting the wrong guys, torturing criminals and failing miserably to prevent the killings. Throughout the film, however, Friedkin casts them as good guys. They are the New York cops of 1977, paralyzed and pressured by a maniac who hears voices that tell him to kill...