Word: crass
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Padilla himself was less crass, more realistic. He took the line that the U.S. would not intervene in his behalf, but that of course the U.S. Government was for him, just as it is for all good democrats in Latin America...
Like all Val Lewton productions, The Body Snatcher shows a humane sincerity and a devotion to good cinema unfortunately rather rare in U.S. movies. In this case, however, much of the picture is more literary than lively and neglects its crass possibilities as melodrama. The exceptions provide an anthology of eminently nasty creeps and jolts. The sudden snort of a horse is timed to scare the daylights out of you; there is a grisly shot of Lugosi's slaughtered head, distorted beneath brine ; and the last passage in the picture is as all-out, hair-raising a climax...
...must put an end to the period when failure in private endeavor has been a passport to Government service; when crass political machines have dictated the appointment of foreign ambassadors and high judicial officers . . . when extravagance in public expenditures has been accepted as proof of love of common man and evidence of a liberal mind...
...Crass commercialism" was the general candid opinion of the Business School in its embrionic stages back in 1908 when William L. Cunningham, James P. Hill Professor of Transportation, was one of 30 original members of its teaching staff...
Professor Cunningham told an informal gathering of all the Busy School faculty and students Saturday night in Baker Hall that he and his so-called "crass commercialist" had thought enough of their brain-child in the "good old days" to submit to being crowded into cellars and housed in cabby holes for the first few years of its unprogressive development...