Word: crassness
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Last week, on the day before the House approved a bill to keep better track of lobbyists, R.N.C. chairman Haley Barbour mailed fund-raising letters to many of the lobbyists the bill is supposed to rein in. Even in a city inured to the crass trading of favors for campaign cash, the Barbour letter, signed simply "Haley," is extraordinarily blatant. It opens, "Let me get right to the point," and lays out in detail the special access money can buy, ranging from photographs with the Republican presidential contenders to cocktails in a private skybox at the G.O.P. convention...
...polls, a wholesale change in strategy and theme seems remote. The reason is simple: while everyone else thinks Dole's nomination is inevitable, Dole's campaign staff members don't. Of the other contenders, they are particularly worried about Gramm, whom most pundits and political consultants view as too crass to present a serious challenge to Dole for the nomination...
Stereotypes abound in "Steal Big, Steal Little." The wealthy Japanese businessman does not speak a word of English, the ditzy blond wife loves her husband no matter how badly he treats her, the greedy lawyer betrays a life-long friend for money, and the crass Chicagoan has a kind heart underneath all the bluster, not to mention the happy migrant workers who are never without a stupid grin on their faces...
This devotion to material possessions, accompanied by a relative neglect of any higher values, is now a part of American culture. In looking at the state of contemporary America, many commentators rightly bemoan our society's crass materialism, expressing shock at this sorry state of affairs. We should all be disturbed by the moral decay of our nation...
...this fall is the presence, for the first time, of serious network competition. On Oct. 14th, Fox will launch Mad-TV, a sketch-comedy show based on Mad magazine. The one-hour program, which will air at 11 p.m. Eastern time (half an hour earlier than SNL) looks unpromising--crass, pointless skits, like one in which homeless people forage for breakfast food in Dumpsters, seem to be favored here too--but if it fails, Fox already has a potential backup in the works: a sketch-comedy hour being developed by Roseanne...