Word: crass
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...cynical big-name critic on her side (George Saunders) who understands the game better than anyone else and is bringing her into the big-leagues for his own murky reasons. All About Eve is billed as the ultimate backstage story, and it deserves the recognition. A fun and crass and campy exploration of the American desire to be famous. Tickets $6. 9 p.m. The Harvard Film Archive...
Kerry seems unable, or unwilling, to confront Bush directly on this ground. Every word he utters about Iraq smacks of politics. Last week he finally said the war was "wrong," but then--in a crass, consultant-driven moment--turned the disaster into a financial transaction. Bush had spent $200 billion in Iraq that could have been spent at home. Leave aside the fact that $200 billion is a meaningless number to a nation inured to billion-dollar tags for just about everything. Leave aside the fact that most Americans would willingly have spent the money--and, more to the point...
...that the apology he issued wasn’t his own idea. It was the public relations department of the Timberwolves, his agent, maybe even his own family. They understood how crass his comments were, how he managed to offend some of his fans while the others glided over what he said without batting an eyelash. As a public figure with a huge influence over kids, he should have realized that his comments were wholly inappropriate...
...Prurient, crass and insensitive." CHESTER STERN, spokesman for Mohammed Fayed, on CBS's decision to broadcast photographs from the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Fayed's son Dodi...
...crass as it is to remind the administration that Harvard has an endowment of $19.5 billion, it does. I understand, of course, that Harvard’s operating budget is gargantuan and that despite the commensurate endowment, the University isn’t dripping with excess cash. Nevertheless, the pitifully short library hours need not remain an immutable fact of life...