Word: crass
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...saying the crass, materialistic Hollywood moguls were more enlightened than today's execs...
Brian R. Hecht's article "Council Reelects Lee Unanimously" (Feb. 13) seems to be entirely appropriate in an age as crass as ours. I find it peculiar that the undergraduate body of such a prestigious university has supported an individual like Mr. Lee, an individual who carves his name in school desks and brags about it. The unbridled bravado with which Mr. Lee demonstrates his disrespect for private property is shocking. Unfortunately, it is surpassed by his easy use of four-letter words while being interviewed for Mr. Hecht's article...
...their institution not to make their lives and careers harder. Jacqueline O'Neill had informed them that where real estate is concerned, Harvard University is a revenue-earning corporation, period. I am ashamed that the University in which I teach presents itself in public as one of the most crass and callous developers in Massachusetts...
...Leibman and Jessica Walter are funny as a crass accountant and his smug wife. Ken Howard and Lisa Banes have striking moments as a would-be state senator and his disenchanted spouse. But the other couples -- Andre Gregory and Joyce Van Patten as a spaced-out therapist and his oddball wife, and Mark Nelson and Christine Baranski as neurotic lawyers -- derive from TV rather than life. Gene Saks, who won two Tony Awards directing the trilogy, finds few nuances here. W.A.H...
...negative and irrelevant to the White House; it would be a bizarre ritual, to say the least, if a President Bush solemnly recited the Pledge of Allegiance each time he stepped into the Oval Office. Dukakis' presidential agenda was almost as shadowy. Even as an underdog presumably liberated from crass campaign calculus, he chose sound-bite slogans over a last chance to talk sense to the American people...