Word: crassness
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...Fund raisers tend to be crass and hard sell," says Joseph Zengerle, a Washington lawyer and Dukakis money-maker. "But Bob brings none of that baggage with him." Farmer's approach is low key, almost to the point of deference. On the phone with a fund raiser from Florida, Farmer is the consummate flatterer. "You were with us when it was unfashionable, my friend," he says. He makes his pitch casually: "Can you put together another $10,000?" Farmer smiles and nods approvingly, winding up the call with his trademark breezy farewell: "You're a great American...
...What goes on at the clubs is "the same as a rooming group of guys who get drunk and act crass," says William C. Parsons '89, a former member of the the Porcellian Club...
...first Waters worked on outlaw subjects and weeny budgets. Now that few moviegoers can be outraged by the antics of his crass menagerie, this past master of bad taste has pulled the ultimate shockeroo: he has made a PG movie. Even more horrifying, Hairspray is in imminent danger of becoming a mainstream hit. Baltimore may never forgive...
...personifying and psychoanalyzing the film industry is misleading. The studios don't lie awake at night feeling bad about crass, blockbuster teen comedies, and they don't make major decisions based on collective guilt or animus. Studios are corporations and corporations collect money. And in Hollywood there's only one possession prestigious enough to risk money. on: an Academy Award. But the Oscar statue is far more than a recognition of achievement. It's also the most effective publicity device a studio can hope...
...Louis cannot imagine a more genial place than Busch Stadium, though their perspective may have become a little bleary over the years. Ford Frick was the commissioner in 1953, when Gussie Busch bought the team and wanted to rename old Sportsman's Park Budweiser Stadium. Frick ruled out such crass huckstering, but at 88 Busch has got the last laugh aboard a beer wagon that fetches him to his box before the home games...