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Later on, I entertained the notion that Bush was suggesting that some subjects, such as the length of Gore's tax plan, are best debated in the language of numbers, whereas actual statistics about how much money will be spent on specific programs are simply too crass to be repeated in the exalted format of a presidential debate. This argument didn't make terribly much sense either, since a tax plan is actually composed of a collection of numbers, and so it seems slightly disingenuous to discuss only the vaguest of guiding principles while masking the actual outcome...

Author: By Daniel K. Biss, | Title: Fuzzy Math, Texas Style | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...mail, Hewitt described American Pie as "crass" and "vulgar" and said that she "was sorry that [they] picked one like that...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer School Cancels Movies | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...promotion of student-run businesses--through which students may enter the University to gain in profits as well as wisdom--inevitably conjures up the spectre of crass, unlearned, Visigothic commercial interests laying siege to the ivory tower of liberal arts education. However, although it is first and foremost an institution of arts and sciences, the College is aware that most students would like later to find gainful employment. The technology institute may, very much like the Institute of Politics and the Office of Career Services, benefit students by promoting activity in a non-academic field that augments the academic experience...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Technology and Education | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

With high art butting up against crass industry, and the sublime meeting the slime, Cannes is catnip for a connoisseur of bad taste like trash auteur John Waters, who showed his fizzy anarchistic jape Cecil B. Demented out of competition. "When I hear people say they hate the festival," he told TIME's Jeffrey Ressner, "I wonder why they bother to stay in show business." Cecil B. was typical of the American films premiering at Cannes this year. Ribald or sedate, they were all off-Hollywood. The Coen brothers offered a surprisingly genial odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catnip for Film Connoisseurs | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...have enjoyed Stein's outspoken articles on various topics. The one on testosterone, however, was unnecessarily crass and offensive. I implore the editors to keep such unwanted immorality out of your otherwise fantastic magazine. If Stein's articles had some purpose, I might overlook his failings. But as they are intended only for humor, their value is completely negated by the frequent references to sex and pornography. ANGELIQUE MOSES Searcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 15, 2000 | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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