Word: crassness
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...accept: a nation that has always cherished a self-congratulatory illusion that it could be all things to all who appeared at the front door must now have the character to make the sort of serious choices that might leave America seeming as vulnerable and diminished and woefully crass as the rest of the world...
NINETY PER CENT of everything is crap," Theodore Sturgeon, the science fiction author, once observed, and that analysis certainly holds true for science fiction's third cousin, electronic music. With electronic music--and in particular with synthesizers--so many people working within the idiom are crass imitators of others' modest successes...
...Cruising develops into a leather-coated cat-and-mouse story, Friedkin's strange perceptions of New York cops become clearer. They are crass morons as he presents them, maligning the cruisers and transvestites, raiding apartments at the wrong time, busting the wrong guys, torturing criminals and failing miserably to prevent the killings. Throughout the film, however, Friedkin casts them as good guys. They are the New York cops of 1977, paralyzed and pressured by a maniac who hears voices that tell him to kill...
...that need be said here is that distributional weights, as commonly understood in out professional literature, simply do not enter these dimensions.... In the end, then, we cannot condemn as crass or unfeeling the idea our profession's moving towards-a consensus based on the traditional criterion of efficiency. (Journal of Political; Economy, April...
...critical questions, such as what specific Soviet actions would constitute a threat against U.S. interests in the Gulf region and how the U.S. would respond. Another debate was over how Carter should refer to the area he was proposing to defend. He finally decided that "the oilfields" sounded too crass, and settled on "the Persian Gulf region...