Word: crass
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...Kenny Solms and Gail Parent. Lorelei has been touring the country for eleven months. Perhaps that is why not even the Art Deco sets - inappropriate for a 1920s story- look fresh. The book, which always had the flaw of seeming more heartless than its heroine, now seems just plain crass...
...Atoms for Peace program. From the King's point of view, America's movies are shown to be drenched in sex and violence, its jazz too loud (though what is played is a decade out of date even by 1957 standards), its treatment of the famous crass and importunate...
...hippopotamus and topping it off with a chipmunk's head. Yet man, the born tinkerer, is forever fashioning hybrids out of his art forms. With reckless profusion, novels are turned into plays, plays into musicals, musicals into movies and vice versa. This is partly a matter of crass commerce, partly of dried-up imagination, and partly of pure madness...
Agnew was a dishonest official, thrust into a position of visibility by Richard Nixon's crass political judgement in 1968. Nixon's man became a surrogate for his administration in speaking tours around the nation; now Agnew has become a symbol of Republican corruption...
...Park Street atmosphere which many of us loved, every twenty minutes the theme song of the MBTA comes on, sung in sweet cherubic voices: "The T can take you where you're going, Take the T to where you've never been..." This is really too much to endure. Crass American is in poor taste, but commercial propaganda is an unpardonable transgression...