Word: crude
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...songs that would at least inspire laughter and often had some shock value (e.g. “Baby Bitch,” and “Spinal Meningitis (Got me Down)” off “Chocolate and Cheese”). Unfortunately, this album generally lacks the crude, silly, and striking teenage humor of its predecessors. “Object” and “My Own Bare Hands” have some satirical merit, making light of the objectification of women and the rock star mentality, respectively. But the album as a whole is somewhat...
...Asians but for any immigrant community, it is difficult to tread the line between ethnic assimilation and self-preservation. Academics have attempted to describe and define this tension in many ways, most famously with the metaphor of the American “melting pot.” A crude assimilationist model of this ideal might have us believe that foreigners arrive in the United States via some sort of cultural liquidation sale, ready to absorb into a gloopy, grey and nondescript soup characterized primarily by football, Big Macs and turkey stuffing. A more preservationist version might resemble throwing a sack...
Though his original bill called for an 8% royalty (in contrast, companies that lease federal lands to produce crude oil, natural gas and surface-mined coal pay the government a royalty of 12.5% of the current market value of the commodity), in a recent amendment, Rahall suggested restricting the fee to new mines, and exempting existing mining operations - a move that frustrated environmental groups. After a committee vote taken last Thursday, the bill would instead oblige existing mines to pay lower royalties of 4%; new mines, 8%. "We were disappointed," said Lauren Pagel, legislative advisor with Earthworks, a nonprofit dedicated...
...drives us out of sympathy with this picture. The director, Susanne Bier, whose After the Wedding was a very good film, either can't or won't control him, and he is a shameless performer - constantly suing us for sympathy, by tricks that are either too cute or too crude. He's one of those actors who's always self-consciously acting like an actor instead of behaving like a human being. He's like a kid afflicted by the terrible twos, who having behaved badly then scrunches up his face into a mask of adorability in order to enlist...
...devoted his life to light, even when his public couldn't follow him into it. His admirers, and they included the great polemicist John Ruskin, called him the supreme English painter of his day. His critics, and there were more of them all the time, thought his watercolors were "crude blotches" and his oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible. Or, as the essayist William Hazlitt put it in a still...