Word: crass
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...Scoop” is the only movie Allen has shot abroad in his thirty years of directing. Away from his New York stomping ground, he’s the new kid on the block, and he seems nervous about ending up as the crass “Ugly American” among an old-world city’s cinematic elite...
...Reed would say approvingly, "He gets the joke." It's what drew political reporters to Reed: we appreciated him in the same way we do James Carville and Harold Ickes on the Democratic side, or Lee Atwater and the reigning master, Karl Rove, on the Republican side. They're crass, sometimes ruthless and occasionally willing to stretch or even break a principle in order to win. Their redeeming quality is that most of them know they don't have what it takes to be the candidates themselves. And that might have been Reed's mistake...
Josef von Sternberg was a famous Hollywood auteur in 1930 and Dietrich a minor Berlin actress when he cast her as Lola, the crass chanteuse of The Blue Angel. Just like that, a star was born: an anti-Garbo who viewed life and love as a series of awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract...
...voice-tracking my life?” The critic answers “No...he can’t.” He continues by attacking Birkerts’s phrase “the moment of Shakespearean ripeness,” which Marcus alleges is Birkerts’ crass plot to remind his readers that “he knows Shakespeare.” A current student of Birkerts’s—who prefers to remain anonymous—says his teacher “is such a nice guy...really chill...
...unfortunate, though not unanticipated, one. At best, such a vote will be a dilatory and untimely distraction from more vital issues facing the Faculty—a dean search, the curricular review, and the Allston expansion among them; at worst, the motion can be seen as a crass power grab in the wake of the Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s resignation.It is no secret that members of FAS want a bigger say in choosing their dean. By pronouncing for a second time an enduring lack of confidence in Summers, some Faculty members hope to strip...