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...deep power that both Clinton and Gantry have over people comes not from intelligence or a fancy education, but from love laced with vulgarity. Accused of being crude by Falconer's business manager, Gantry responds: "You're too good for the people. I am the people." Fade out to what every honest person has been thinking these past seven months, about not reaching for the first stone. The point that Lewis made with Gantry was that the preacher was also a man. Draped in the refuse of his flock's fury, Gantry asks, "What were they so mad about anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Gantry Addresses the Flock | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...race in November. While the 47-year-old millionaire attorney managed to draw a plurality of 41% in the Democratic primary, his drawbacks in a general election are obvious. While most of his positions (pro-choice, pro-environment) put him on the liberal end of the political spectrum, his crude, combative style has largely alienated the state's traditional party Pooh-Bahs and threatens to scare upscale Democrats into Engler's camp. Some Dems, though, see a silver lining in Fieger's ascent: his in-your-face campaign style could lure a fresh wave of young voters, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motown Motormouth | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Some of the most offensive, crude and outright gross on-screen behavior of the summer can be found in There's Something About Mary. Yet despite its consistent lewdness, Mary is a clever film that takes a twisted joyride and ends with a surprise. The plot is complicated and topsy-turvy, so to spare those who have not yet seen the movies, here is a quick rundown: beautiful Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz) just cannot get away from stalkers. However, when Ted Stromman (Ben Stiller) wants to track her down 13 years after their dismal senior prom date, he is doing...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Here's Something To Laugh About | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...unburied dead. Bodies swiftly rotted by the tropical heat come apart in emergency workers' hands. And to the surviving villagers, many of them amputees after gangrene invaded their wounds, it is a place to be ever forsaken, a steaming graveyard carved out by elemental demons. New villages, crude and unnamed, are springing up on a hill far from the betraying water. "The people will go back, but to a better place," said Fabian Tombre, whose village, Arop, is no more. "We will build new homes away from the sea. We will live up in the bush for 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under a Wall of Water | 7/23/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dog Book Not Good, Too Boring for the Beach | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

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