Word: crud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think I've gotten something similar to that from Annenberg food. It's not the cleanest place. My plate has been dirty and my silverware has had crud on it several times...
...BUTCHER BOY In a provincial 1960s Irish town, an emotionally starved child feeds his imagination on crud culture and warped religiosity, then innocently creates a miniholocaust. Arson, murder, madness--Neil Jordan transforms it all into a bruising metaphor for the larger violence of our times...
...they are tired of lawyers who cover up the truth because they, the American People, hope for the truth, and they demand it. And they will know the truth when they hear it. Because the American People don't want open-ended fishing expeditions, and they don't want crud dumped on them. (Yuk! Who does...
This, really, is my point: masterpieces--like Songs for Swingin' Lovers!--are easy to love. They are what we remember artists for, but they aren't always as illuminating, or as cherishable, as the failures and throwaways. More often than not, even Sinatra's crud speaks his virtues. You can't ask much more of a performer than that...
...Francie never fully realizes how this imagery has eased him across the line separating delinquency from criminality. The scariest thing about this difficult, duplicitous movie is the invincibility of Francie's ignorance on this point and the vivid gloss this offers on our unending concern about the power of crud culture to bend vulnerable minds to its heedless will...