Word: crassness
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...with a certain hostile suspicion. Barry Goldwater was probably thinking of New York some 15 years ago when he suggested that the country might be better off if the Eastern seaboard could be sawed off and allowed to float out to sea. In this opinion. New Yorkers were arrogant, crass, rude. They presumed to tell the rest of the nation-through television, magazines and books-what to think, how to dress. New York was everything that was wrong with citification: intellectual dandyism, supercilious radical chic in the penthouses, while the streets turned into a slough of welfare and crime. Limousines...
...bottom, from tricolored wigs to toilet seats, planes and trains to municipal fireplugs, Tiffany diadems to morticians' coffins. An instant industry has sprung up manufacturing Bicentennial gewgaws such as plastic tricornes, birthday buttons, patriotic bikinis and tricolor towels. With pride, affection and occasional humor, from motives ranging from crass commercialism to plain and fancy patriotism, Americans are splashing the land with primary color that, for a change, has nothing to do with elections. Some RWB (red, white and blue) examples...
...Strauss Rape and Pillage Society, sporting red Ve Ri Crass shirts, found the hard way that its boat could not support 15 drunk students and one not-so-reluctant proctor. However, after being tossed into the icy water a few times, and battling a dog who had made off with an oar, the crew members still tried to clamber aboard the remains of their vessel. The Rapists eventually snared the "Ronald Reagan" award for leaning furthest to the right...
...gather beneath the portrait of Teddy Roosevelt on a rampant steed do not come in red, white and blue plastic boaters or snapping galluses that say, THERE IS A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE. They deny direct relationship with the crass election business. But they are everything to Ford's future...