Word: crass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ribald series of escapades as they make their way westward towards California--for where else could the perfect phrase be found? Each place they travel through and everyone they meet cleverly parodies the familiar stock and trade characters from modern literature or American culture. There is the requisite crass army officer in mirrored glasses, the lecherous academic whose greatest interest is his research assistant, and Mexican gauchos who find truth in their chile and peyote under the stark desert sky. Excerpts from the family's reading materials are interspersed among the Gavottes many encounters making Blue Pastoral a mocking survey...
...Shakespeare to Frost, has been lifted by forgers, some unmasked, some forever anonymous. Religions have been undermined, the reputations of races besmirched, nation set against nation, scientist against scientist, banker against depositor, even lover against the beloved, all by forgers' clandestine deceptions. Phony works of art have debased culture. Crass counterfeiting has threatened the stability of currency...
...This is the ultimate death wish come to come to fruition within the industry. Do you think if the cigarette industry found that smoking causes cancer, they'd call a press conference to advertise the fact?" Yet the report may also serve to warm the hearts of crass producers. They now have more reason than ever to believe that no matter what they put on the air, viewers may carp and complain, but they will continue to watch...
...crowd at the Grammy Awards last week looked as if it had just flown in from one of the moons of Saturn: glittering, snorting the intergalactic dust. Touches of the high crass mingled with a sort of metaphysical flash. Stevie Wonder, for example, wore a cumulously quilted white satin tuxedo whose upswept lapels formed great angel wings. The costume had the curious effect of making him look like a Puritan headstone...
...complaint is that the multinational is insensitive to the needs of the people in a Third World country," said the leader of the opposition People's National Party "They have often behaved with crass indifference to wards its host population...