Word: crude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suspension of Disbelief, Part One: Bruce Willis. The supposedly infallible Jackal is one sloppy assassin, especially when it comes to weaponry. His choice of a crude and bulky gatling gun undercuts reports of his slick methods. His use of a crude and bulky New York accent undercuts reports of his cosmopolitan savoir faire. On top of all that, he leaves the blueprints for his secret weapon lying around where the FBI can find them. So what sets this clumsy Jackal apart from other supercriminals? Well, he can (drumroll, please) change his haircolor! But so what? So can Dennis Rodman...
...Amal Kansi was convicted of killing two CIA employees in a 1993 attack outside the agency?s Langley, Virginia headquarters. The Americans killed in today?s ambush were employees of Union Texas Petroleum, which accounts for about 40 percent of Pakistan?s crude oil production...
...video "The Way Things Go," in the "Sausage Series" the artists remove human presence and distort scale, producing a world of crude cinematic maquettes overrun by cigarette-butt villagers and sausage-mobiles. In "The Carpet Shop" a group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their...
...small clay sculptures in "Suddenly This Overview," are equally beguiling. All modestly crafted by hand and about the same size, the nine pieces presented at the ICA include a loaf of bread, a disc jockey, an outdoor garden and tambiguous, the sculptures are at once crude in their formal execution and sophisticated in their narrative mode...
What was happening inside the courtroom was even more outrageous. In his opening statement, Trodden pointed to Albert and told the jury that "a coarse and crude abuse of a human being took place...at the hands of that man." The prosecutor went on to reveal that Albert liked three-way sex and wore "ladies' underwear." Defense attorney Black in his statement portrayed the accuser as a troubled woman who sought revenge on his client because he was going to marry someone else. Black said she "collects" celebrities, pointing out that she once claimed to have had a "relationship" with...