Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to draw a line between public and private lives of politicians. Although probing the lives of candidates only gives fodder for crude sensationalism, any alleged breaches of ethics while in office should be investigated. But the American people have already showed us that they don't care that much about ethics. When they are again disappointed with their representatives, we can only urge them to remember on the next election...
...Park bombing investigation has been closed." He added that the documents can be considered "historical information" rather than evidence in an ongoing investigation, and the details of the episode are now a "historical footnote." Jewell was widely heralded as a hero for spotting the suspicious knapsack that contained a crude but deadly pipe bomb and moving crowds away from danger. But three days later, the FBI leaked that he was a suspect in their investigation -- not their prime or only suspect, but the only one made public. Since that day, Jewell's reputation has been under a dark cloud...
...formats range from traditional work (Popeye for President, 1956) to mixes of live action and animation. Ford includes his own nicely rancid vaudeville about Richard Nixon to the tune of No Substitute, the hilariously solemn Nixon-Lodge campaign song for 1960. Disney artists contributed to a crude, perky 1952 TV commercial for Eisenhower ("I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike/ Let Ad-l-ai go the other way,/ We'll take Ike to Washington...
That case was intuitively apparent in Kuwait, where hundreds of stagnant black lakes of wasted crude oil still cover miles of desert, bearing permanent witness to the threat from Iraq. Kuwait's government, says a Western official, "always asks why the U.S. can't do more against Saddam--though they know the policy the U.S. is pursuing is the only practical...
...money, the glamour, the witty copy--everyone loves a Nike ad. Except maybe the normally genial Seattle Mariner KEN GRIFFEY JR., who sounds off about his faux presidential campaign in next month's George: "Griffey for President--what kind of [three crude synonyms for foolish] idea is that?" It seems Griffey wanted to do ads with lots of action but instead had reporters asking him his views on abortion. Nike has stopped the expensive campaign but says that was because of the Mariners' performance, not Junior...