Word: crass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crass comments relating to sex were overdone," said Islea Morales...
...generally hold nothing but contempt for Harvard liberals, but I'd like to grudgingly praise them for their recognition that what we teach in our schools is in fact a political question. What I hate is their crass politicization of the whole process of learning. Another day, another editorial...
...Love Is, is slow and spare and recalls Billie Holiday without imitating her. "You don't know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album of submerged pain. Redbone, written by the singer, consists only of her molasses vocals, the twanging of a pedal steel guitar and African-tinged percussion. On the album's best track, a cover of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Wilson reveals...
...boring scenes. The script, too, is dismal. When not rummaging through his chest of platitudes and overused analogies, writer Nicholas St. John creates his own Iudicrous dialogue. In a drunken rage, Burn's husband-from-hell course, of all things, "Consumerism!" One cannot forget, as well, the inexplicably crass run of tampon metaphors...
...supposed to be America's great goal, but it will not be permitted to interfere ultimately with Clinton's trade-first strategy. No one would put it as baldly as Calvin Coolidge did when he said the business of America is business, but Christopher was only a bit less crass earlier this month. "The U.S.," he said, "must maintain a tough-minded sense of our enduring interests: our security, prosperity and, where possible, the advancement of our democratic values...