Word: crass
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...Powell’s influential address to the U.N. on Baghdad’s lethal technology and connections to al Qaeda have been disappointed. The French and the Germans purport to have the most high-minded of motives, yet in reality their policies are driven by factors no less crass and practical than those that compelled London and Paris to appease Mussolini...
...known for years Republicans are capitalist bourgeois pigs, but this week I finally stumbled upon verifiable proof in a link on the Republican National Committee homepage. The linked site—so nuanced in its absurdity—proves undoubtedly the Republican Party is but a crass, commercialistic machine: The George W. Bush Online Store (www.georgewbushstore.com...
...film draws us into the world of Bak Khan, a former temple boy from Laos who has come to Nong Khai province from Bangkok and is appalled at the commercial exercise the festival has become: full of crass city slickers getting drunk, brawling and gambling. As he struggles with his faith, he falls for A-Lit, a pretty schoolteacher whose scientist husband is determined to prove the fireballs are a natural phenomenon. Bak Khan wants to expose the charade, especially as the TV crew seems to be closing in on the secret. But his former abbot tries to convince...
...huge-eyed docility that’s an able contrast to Barry’s bouts of high emotion. Nearly as good in tiny roles are Anderson veterans Luis Guzman as Barry’s eternally arch-faced co-worker and the ever-sublime Philip Seymour Hoffman as a crass Utah entrepreneur...
...dumbest. Fastlane is, blissfully, exactly as dumb as the dumbest movies. Made by the uni-monikered director McG (Charlie's Angels), it reproduces the high-gloss, empty-calorie experience of a summer action flick, down to the loud soundtrack and the black-guy-white-guy jokes. It's crass, pandering, cliched--and fun. (A scene with the undercover black cop, played by Bill Bellamy, line dancing at a redneck bar is a pure 48 Hours rip-off but one of the few genuine laughs of the new season.) Adapting the trash glamour of today's rap videos, as Vice...