Word: crass
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...shock, amuse or horrify his friends and acquaintances. In part he seemed bent, as his enemies charged, on playing Humphrey Bogart in public. In part he was simply making a shrewd bid for publicity, and in part he was giving irascible voice to his honest hatred of the crass and phony side of motion pictures. He also had personal problems. Life with his third wife,* Movie Actress Mayo Methot, was filled with the sound of violent argument. At times, when drinking, they clubbed each other with furniture and whisky bottles...
...even as Olivia is drawn closer, the audience begins to understand how Julie is caught in her own net no less cruelly than her victims are. She is a woman of spirit and of heart, a gifted teacher who desperately fights her own inclinations. The picture is never crass and only once or twice comes close to being explicit...
...decision to go ahead with the Business School and ignore the theater means that "money and moneymakers are controlling Harvard policy, that the University is being run by merchants for the benefit of those who aspire to be merchants" and that it is these who are behind "this crass and painful blow at the Arts and the Drama...
...Colorado visiting friends, Baritone Paul Robeson, great and good friend of the U.S.S.R., intoned an off-key lament. His appearances were getting harder and harder to arrange in the crass concert halls of Capitalism. "I think I find more difficulty here in Denver than anywhere," wailed the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 265 Ibs.) singer. "And that's no credit to Denver, since I still remain one of the greatest singers and actors in the world...
...eyes of the world, he does. But Sandra starts tasting the lees of her marriage almost before she sips its joys. The wedding night, which she has pictured as a ritual of tenderness, is reduced to a matter of crass urgency. "Afterward he didn't give me a loving look, call me his darling and his queen . . . He reached for the cigarettes." After she stretches his small monthly paycheck to the limit, he carps querulously: "Is it all gone so soon...