Word: crass
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...same as the original: single fortysomething Kath (Molly Shannon) has her life disrupted when her dim-bulb daughter Kim (Selma Blair) leaves her husband and shows up at Kath's doorstep. Like the British Absolutely Fabulous, it's a comedy of grotesques; Kath is a clueless ninny, Kim a crass, inarticulate walking...
...when writers and artists could live there--a few still do--but now the apartments start at $1 million-plus, making it strictly the domain of the wealthy. ("Money wants what it can't buy," Bushnell writes, "class and talent.") The friction between those two worlds--rich and poor, crass and cultured, New York present and New York past--gives the book its heat. Well, that...
...wonder if your American readers can imagine the incredulity with which we view the possibility that the free world might end up being led by the lipsticked pit bull. The crass naiveté of McCain and Palin has blown our minds. David Brancher, ABERGAVENNY, WALES...
...encrusted skull he unveiled last year called For the Love of God. As a trope for human folly and cupidity, a glittering death's head is as tired as it gets. Hirst's twist, such as it was, was to have the thing manufactured at a stratospheric level of crass luxury - a platinum skull layered with 8,601 diamonds - then to offer the poisoned apple to the world's billionaires for $100 million. At that price level it would not only be the most expensive work by a living artist, but a punch line to Hirst's conceptualist joke about...
...once wrote an essay on the life of writer Anatole Broyard, the light-complexioned son of two black parents who lived his life passing as a white man. "He wanted to be a writer," Gates explained, but "he did not want to be a Negro writer. It is a crass disjunction, but it is not his crassness or his disjunction ... We give lip service to the idea of the writer who happens to be black, but had anyone, in the postwar era, ever seen such a thing...