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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...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The League of Nations Redux? | 2/26/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, | Title: Brand W. Shows True Colors | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love's Labors | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Polishing Up the Badge | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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