Word: crass
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...sounds like crass commercialization. It is. But it could be worse...
...True, his funniest jokes were laced with a measure of contempt for the industry (on the awards' use of the phrase, "The Oscar goes to..." rather than "The winner is...": "God forbid anybody should think of this as a competition. It might make the trade ads seem crass"). But Martin is thoroughly L.A. at heart, and he kept the crowd safely on his side with liberal name-dropping and use of the pronoun "we." He probably didn't guarantee himself an invite back with his competent, often funny job; but worse for him, he didn't guarantee that...
...schemes, the betrayals, the bawdy jokes over pasta, crass relatives, uncontrollable appetites, subpoenas, cigars and truckloads of stolen baubles. America has been transfixed by the Clinton family foibles. But now that The Sopranos are back from hiatus, viewers may have to choose which family drama merits their attention...
...world wearing Tibetan robes, herding yaks and clowning with nomads. Her first performance in the capital two weeks ago packed Beijing's exhibition center with young Chinese who could afford to spend $50 for a ticket?and one apprehensive Tibetan lama with a shaved head who was anticipating crass exploitation of his heritage. Instead, he saw Dadawa share the stage with Tibetan musicians who played traditional religious tunes. "We Tibetans would never be allowed to celebrate our own culture like that," says the lama...
...Granted that the networks had to put something on screen, some of the choices were crass enough to mortify the no-cameras-in-the-court purists; CNN's choice to show the courtroom "won-loss" record of lawyers, for instance, was the sort of knee-jerk ballgame mentality that confirms 24-hour news's worst tendencies. But the visuals were beside the point: The verbal back-and-forth itself was not only riveting but a salutary thing for the whole polarized country to hear, even if most of us could understand one out of every three terms...