Word: crassness
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...website. Contributors classify their content as “general” or “gory” and then rate themselves: some “really need a hobby” while others are “just here to masturbate.” More crass than their sophomoric sexual classifications are the pornographic icons and advertisements that pervade the threads of “gory” material.This juxtaposition is an uncomfortable reminder of the soldiers’ often-licentious motivations. The purity of truth and the degradation of sacrifice are melded as unflinching journalistic accuracy, brutal...
...that appeals to their good sides." As an example, he cites a snippet of Diamonds from Sierra Leone about his rise to fame: "'Life movin' too fast, I need to slow down/ Girl ain't give me no ass, she need to go down.' All right, that's really crass, right? Really bogus. So what comes next? 'My father been said I need Jesus/ So he took me to church, let the water wash over my Caesar' [haircut]. I go back and forth all the time...
...uncovering of his magnificent tomb more than 82 years ago, and now modern technology has allowed us to put a virtual face on the legendary Pharaoh. In the late 1970s, an exhibition of artifacts from his tomb toured U.S. museums. We described the show's appeal?and the resulting crass commercialization?in an Oct. 3, 1977, report...
...decade after the Stegner setback, Kumin would mostly keep her verses private. But although Stegner’s crass criticism might have stifled Kumin’s development as a writer, it also taught her a valuable lesson: “never, never, ever to put a student down that way. And I’m pleased to say I never have,” testifies Kumin, whose long teaching career has included posts at over a dozen schools, including Brandeis, Columbia, MIT, and Princeton...
Factually, the speech was correct. While his presentation of these facts may have ruffled some feathers, the way in which critics turned what was ultimately meant to be a thoughtful reflection on the unintended consequences of Americans’ actions into a pro-genocide diatribe is crass and dishonest. Add to that the fact that these critics just spoke up now, a full seven months after the speech was given, and things start to seem extra fishy. Is this anything resembling legitimate criticism, or just the result of a scholarly bandwagon-effect...