Word: crass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking to several friends, I think I have a pretty good idea of what went on. Gibson had no point to make, no themes to discuss and no message to send to the Harvard youths that could grow up to shape the world. Instead he was flippant and crass. He littered his speech with profanities that I don't need to quote here. Now, I don't mean to sound overly pious, but I believe that usually when a man must stoop to using profanities it is because he does not have the intelligence to express himself in any other...
Audience members said Gibson seemed unprepared and nervous, choosing to answer questions from audience members with humorous but crass quips...
However, in the instance that a player or team has seven consecutive points scored on them, the player(s) must adhere to the "Sack" rule, a rather crass rule which my editors deem unprintable...
...numbers are starting to come in, and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is breathing a collective sigh of relief with the news that the games will probably turn a slim profit. Financed almost entirely through private sponsorship, the games had come under enough fire for their crass commercialism that the IOC decided to recommend that future games be financed by a mixture of public and private funds. In Atlanta, the games had almost no public guarantees, meaning that ACOG would be responsible for any shortfall. After optimistically predicting large profits in the months before the games, ACOG officials...
...Side of Manhattan. The setting was the U.S. showroom of the auctioneer Sotheby's; the occasion, the public sale of 5,914 personal items belonging to the estate of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. And the outcome was not only a bewildering binge of conspicuous consumption but a perverse tribute, crass in some eyes and innocently romantic in others, to the allure of nostalgia and of the woman who single-handedly, and in many ways involuntarily, redefined the culture of celebrity...