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Word: crude (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mart's world, there is accounting for taste. For instance, the video section stocks the risque comedy There's Something About Mary. And there's something in it that more than a few folks would find objectionable. Says movie buyer Eddie Tutt: "It's pretty crude, but [the movie] did $175 million in sales, which kind of tells you that most of the public looked at it and probably felt good about it." Which tells Tutt that unlike, say, Howard Stern's crude movie, Private Parts, which Wal-Mart did not carry, Mary will light up the cash registers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling With Your Conscience | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...fabulous castle placed in the German countryside. The train-ride through the European backwoods creates nostalgia for the innocence and beauty Europe held before World War II. Claude Renoir, the cameraperson for this film, does an excellent job capturing a sense of movement and depth, especially given the crude technology he had at his disposal...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Allusion, Delusion in Grand Illusion | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...perfectly understand the distaste of members of the faculty who discover that some crude and inadequate summary of their lectures is being offered, but our students are certainly wise enough to understand the very limited value of such things...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Call Online Service for Class Notes Dishonest | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could so easily have been otherwise, and in the weeks since I have sometimes thought how wildly, irrationally lucky I was to be spared. But not at the time. With the remains of my rented Japanese car folded around me like crude origami, I was trapped, intermittently conscious but aware of no pain, and losing blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Throat | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...humor to bring out the best in this slightly odd looking comedy. Mystery Alaska's funny roots are evident in this rip-roaring comedy which combines an awful idea with some ingenious humor. The movie takes a while to get started, and after a half an hour of crude jokes about sex and hockey, you begin to wonder if people do anything else in Mystery besides fornicate and smack pucks. This satiric comedy points out the fact that, well, they...

Author: By Kelley E. Morrell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ice, Ice, Baby: Kelley Heads North | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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