Word: crass
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...main goal for this film was to show images of empowered women. She is entirely successful, and in addition she manages to take a political stance without being heavy-handed. The director skillfully chips away at the monolithic image of the female biker that constructs women bikers as crass, ugly, leather-clad renegade dykes, by portraying five different women bikers from across the great spectrum of race, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status...
...turns out, Closing Time (Simon & Schuster; 464 pages; $24) will disappoint both camps. It is neither a triumphant replay nor a crass commercial scam but rather an alternately appealing and annoying bag of mostly old tricks...
...crass comments relating to sex were overdone," said Islea Morales...
...generally hold nothing but contempt for Harvard liberals, but I'd like to grudgingly praise them for their recognition that what we teach in our schools is in fact a political question. What I hate is their crass politicization of the whole process of learning. Another day, another editorial...
...Love Is, is slow and spare and recalls Billie Holiday without imitating her. "You don't know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album of submerged pain. Redbone, written by the singer, consists only of her molasses vocals, the twanging of a pedal steel guitar and African-tinged percussion. On the album's best track, a cover of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Wilson reveals...