Word: crude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reilly, the yuppie boy, realizes love can somehow outweigh money--the characters are stereotyped to the point of offending. Throughout the novel, all the Italians living in Reilly's North End neighborhood are either connected with the Mafia or are vulgar and stupid thugs, while the Boston Irish are crude drunks (including Reilly's mother!). The women are beautiful yet emotionally damaged by problematic relationships with their fathers. Even Reilly's supposed best friend and roommate cannot escape the ethnic pigeonholing, as he hails from an Orthodox Jewish family, and, therefore, has hair described as weird, is smarter than Reilly...
...melodramatics and snippets of dialogue that sound like, well, bad Tennessee Williams (Girl to Guy: "Why don't you ever open the door you're hiding behind?"). But in Nunn's taut, forceful staging, the work is more than a footnote for Williams scholars; it's an evening of crude but often astonishing power...
...hand, my colleague's view of Sinatra as scourge of baby boomers--the anti-Judy Collins, if you will--is a crude caricature of a complex artist, as reductive as any neo-swinger's fetishistic prattling about the man's way with a pocket handkerchief. On the other hand, it is a caricature I too used to believe...
...early 1960s, he rattled art culture with garish silk screens of Hollywood sirens and Campbell's soup cans, of Sing Sing's electric chair and car-crash scenes pulled from the pages of the daily papers. The jolt of the work was its off-register blear, its bright-crude colors; but more so, his icy message that the whole world was product. If everything is reducible to an assembly-line image for sale, then Marilyn, Brillo, cows, Elvis and tabloid death are all equal--and equally convertible to cash. Warhol summed up his career with the words, "I started...
...Radcliffe's administration to insouciantly walk into this proposed arrangement with Harvard is not, by any stretch of the imagination, to secure parity for women, rather it is to weakly seek an old-fashioned sort of wifely dependency. In my day as an undergraduate, we had a crude but effective word for such arrangements: Radcliffe is simply lying down to be co-opted. At this moment, it could use at its head a tough, tactically shrewd firebrand. But do you think Harvard would stomach...