Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that drugs for obesity are again on the scene." A new generation of antiobesity medicines is in the pipeline, under active development by drug companies, and yet another generation is sure to follow. As popular as Redux may be, both it and fen/phen represent just the first, crude attempts to attack obesity at its very source...
...rest were not varied characters; they were expressions of one capacious ego. The issue for him was not selling out but finding a buyer. And Hollywood, ever desperate for performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person...
...children's books evoke such strong emotions as The Story of Little Black Sambo. Its crude, derogatory drawings and racist character names are patently offensive, making it one of the best known relics--practically an icon--of a deplorable era. But Sambo himself is spunky and resourceful, and his story is charming enough that many adults remember it fondly. Now two publishers are trying to resurrect Sambo, preserving the good while jettisoning the bad in new versions of the mortifying old book...
...excavation and opening of Egypt's Dahshur pyramids to the public was brilliant [Archaeology, July 22]. I regret, however, the disparaging way in which American archaeologists engaged in the recent work spoke of their predecessor on the site, French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan. One called his methods "very crude." Of course De Morgan's digging techniques of 100 years ago were not up to our modern standards, but no excavations of that time were. Compared with the work of his contemporaries, De Morgan's excavations were certainly outstanding. De Morgan was a pioneer in the study of the prehistory...
...behind screens or bars before any shooting has happened, and light--red, white, blue--bathes people over the course of the movie. Events in the film's parallel tracks (those related to defense, and those to the prosecution) often occur in discrete chunks, placed side by side for quick, crude comparison. Here come the Klan members; there go Carl Lee's supporters. Or as the movie would have it: T-shirts saying either "Free Carl" or "Fry Carl...