Word: crass
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...Minister for Industry and Commerce John Lynch was on hand, and so were officials from the Irish Export Board. Ambassadors, industrialists and such shamrock-struck Americans as James A. Farley milled through a series of receptions, dinners, cocktail parties and pretty speeches. It was hard to believe that crass commercial enterprise was involved. But it was-to an extent that could nudge Ireland into the forefront of fashion and vastly help its already expanding economy (TIME, July...
...catalogue of the "degenerate art'' show put on by Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels in 1937 has, with predictable irony, become a handy checklist of great modern German artists-Lehmbruck, Barlach, Kirchner, Grosz, Nolde, Ernst. But one artist, Otto Dix, who was considered so crass that no fewer than 16 of his works were hung in the show, is only now getting recognition commensurate with that backhanded accolade. Berlin and Darmstadt have seen comprehensive Dix exhibitions in the past couple of years, and his current show in Stuttgart is drawing praise from critics all over Germany...
...developed screenplay, successfully inventing many scenes to fulfill, rather than simply fill out, the story. It was a very nice piece of work, and when the Perrys tried to get the backing of a major studio, they were not-as custom would have it-turned away icily by the crass boobs of Hollywood. They were just turned away. It lacked size, and the great paradox of movie financing is that it's easy to milk fortunes out of Hollywood for high-budget stupendaganzas, but next to impossible to get a couple of hundred thousand for a low-budget picture...
...difficulties of marketing a Great Actor. "An actor is a product like Florsheim shoes or Ford cars," said Brando. "He's a useful product that is resold many times for social purposes; and he's exploited the way any other piece of merchandise is." All terribly crass, but something else bugged Brando even more: "As soon as you become an actor, people start asking you questions about politics, astrology, archaeology and birth control. And what's even funnier, you start giving opinions...
...former President also condemned the Senate candidacy of Democrat Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy '54, the President's youngest brother, and declared that Kennedy's campaign is based on the "crass, almost arrogant query: Who can get the most out of the United States Treasury for Massachusetts...