Word: crass
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...This is the ultimate death wish come to come to fruition within the industry. Do you think if the cigarette industry found that smoking causes cancer, they'd call a press conference to advertise the fact?" Yet the report may also serve to warm the hearts of crass producers. They now have more reason than ever to believe that no matter what they put on the air, viewers may carp and complain, but they will continue to watch...
...crowd at the Grammy Awards last week looked as if it had just flown in from one of the moons of Saturn: glittering, snorting the intergalactic dust. Touches of the high crass mingled with a sort of metaphysical flash. Stevie Wonder, for example, wore a cumulously quilted white satin tuxedo whose upswept lapels formed great angel wings. The costume had the curious effect of making him look like a Puritan headstone...
...complaint is that the multinational is insensitive to the needs of the people in a Third World country," said the leader of the opposition People's National Party "They have often behaved with crass indifference to wards its host population...
Once, such crass, opportunistic nationalism was the domain of the Right, while liberals argued for free trade and rational recognition of the interdependence of world trade. But responsibly formulating solutions to our real economic problems doesn't win votes as easily as rattling sabers at nefarious foreigners. In the face of brawny, Republican militarism, Mondale and the other projectionist Democrats have had to scrounge up something equally macho to wave around. In embracing protectionism, they have cravenly abandoned the true principles of liberalism...
...spirits and Thatcher's own political fortunes. Her supporters cheered the 8,000-mile journey, which began shrouded in secrecy until her rugged Hercules transport plane touched down on the new airstrip at Port Stanley, the capital. Thatcher called it her "personal pilgrimage." Her adversaries called it a crass political ploy, calculated to appeal to British nationalism and boost the Prime Minister's standing in time for the election she is expected to call later this year...