Word: crassness
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...Dead Zone has grossed $20 million since its late October release, while Christine has raked in a more modest $10 million). King's deftly spun tales of vampires, haunted hotels and psychically advanced humans have brought a measure of class and complexity to a genre domiated by crass scare films like Friday the 13th. "King creates youthful protagonists who are very much in tune with what's going on in the contemporary world of adolescents," says De Palma. "In books, he is the new Disney." Adds Christine Producer Kobritz (who also produced the TV movie of 'Salem...
...behind-the-scenes glimpse of what law enforcement officials call a "boiler room" operation. Such telephone-sales scams are springing up in South Florida faster than authorities can shut them down. Testified James Bennett, a U.S. Oil and Gas salesman who quit because his conscience bothered him: "These were crass people. They'd sell their own mother. And if their mother was already sold, they'd go out and buy another mother and sell her at a profit...
Lourdes has long been the target of criticism from Catholics who are offended by the crass commercialism of the more than 700 religious souvenir shops, innumerable ice-cream parlors and other tourist businesses that line its narrow streets. Lourdes alarm clocks, fondue sets and cigarette lighters compete for shelf space with bottles of "Eau de Toilette a la Bernadette" (three scents), tin napkin holders depicting Bernadette and the Virgin, and plastic packets of "Lourdes Mints" guaranteed to be made from grotto water...
...ribald series of escapades as they make their way westward towards California--for where else could the perfect phrase be found? Each place they travel through and everyone they meet cleverly parodies the familiar stock and trade characters from modern literature or American culture. There is the requisite crass army officer in mirrored glasses, the lecherous academic whose greatest interest is his research assistant, and Mexican gauchos who find truth in their chile and peyote under the stark desert sky. Excerpts from the family's reading materials are interspersed among the Gavottes many encounters making Blue Pastoral a mocking survey...
...Shakespeare to Frost, has been lifted by forgers, some unmasked, some forever anonymous. Religions have been undermined, the reputations of races besmirched, nation set against nation, scientist against scientist, banker against depositor, even lover against the beloved, all by forgers' clandestine deceptions. Phony works of art have debased culture. Crass counterfeiting has threatened the stability of currency...