Word: crass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some scholars object -- Sheldon Krimsky, a professor at Tufts University who has been looking into corporate influence on scholarly journals, calls it "crass" -- Microsoft contends that it is merely trying to be helpful. So far, only a handful of professors have taken the offer...
Winslet's mother is a greedy social climber who revels in the obnoxious snobbery of Winslet's finance and his friends. The old-wealth aristocrats look down upon Kathy Bates, the crass, straight-shooting caricature of the nouveau riche. Of course, Cameron also makes bland references to the injustice of class oppression. Several back-to-back shots reveal that the ship's wealthy patrons are only able to enjoy its luxuries because of the sweat of the poor workers laboring below deck...
...managed to communicate these values to them. The particular boredom and family-oriented ambition of today's college students is a quieter and more relaxed version of 60s discontent with book-learning. It would be a mistake to interpret the results of the poll as a crass materialism or existential boredom. Who can blame college first-years for knowing what they want out of life...
...officials say Jiang is visiting such hallowed points as colonial Williamsburg, Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to show his "deep democratic impulse"; Clinton's aides say these stopovers lend themselves to friendly lectures on what China needs to do to measure up; critics denounce it all as crass exploitation. How Jiang handles himself through these indignities will limn the image he leaves behind...
...world in almost mantra-like fashion that he doesn't want his show tainted by the whiff of salaciousness. "There are a lot of other people doing those stories," he reasons. "Commercially, it's not viable. It's a crowded arena. If someone wants to say that's a crass, commercial decision, well, fine. Fine...