Word: crass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yorkers blasted the trade of Clemens for David Wells because Wells was the prototypical New Yorker--brash, crass and with a large ass. That's not to mention that he could pitch a pretty good nine...
...Valentine's Day, even the most frigid hearts of men and women turn to fancy when affairs of love and crass commercialism embrace in whirlwind of red and pink, of flowers and diamonds, of greeting cards and candy hearts. It is a time when soul mates rejoice and starcrossed lovers lament. On such a day, what do lovers do? Enjoy a quiet evening by the fireplace? Take a ride in a horsedrawn carriage? Dine in a five-star restaurant...
While one of the girls in the trio, Marcie "Foxy" Fox (Julie Benz) follows Courtney's every move with adoration, the other, Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart), is disgusted by Courtney's crass shallowness and utter lack of remorse and is thus ostracized from the group. Truly a person left to "the Karen Carpenter table, "Cue camerapan over to a table containing several emaciatedgirls sitting bleakly with no food in sight. Moresubtly, as the girls create a crime scene in Liz'sbedroom with the corpse, the song blaring in thebackground is, ironically enough. The Cars "LetThe Good Times Roll...
...mourning (sort of) last weekend after Dartmouth College announced its famed fraternity system would be going coed, I rented "Animal House," the movie inspired by Dartmouth's most rowdy frat, fictionally dubbed Delta Tau Chi. It's a great film--crass, yes, but incredibly brilliant and witty. One of the best scenes involves the bumbling but evil Dean Vernon Wormer calling in the leadership of the less-than-academically inclined Delta House and informing them that because of their poor grades, they have expelled because, unknown to them, they have been on "double-secret probation...
Does anyone really think that members of Congress, who routinely pillage billions of tax dollars for post offices and bridges in their own districts, will shy away from influencing the direction of this huge investment windfall? And even if they are not so crass as to pick a shipbuilding company in their district, they will be issuing every conceivable ideological litmus test for these investments...