Word: crudely
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...offhanded style, Southern gleefully raises the bar for bad-taste humor in these pieces, delivering bizarre gross-outs and politically incorrect (understatement) proclamations while tweaking various bastions of civilized behavior. Although the letters read like spontaneous creations, lacking the craft and precision of Southern's best work, their surprisingly crude contents do satisfy his cardinal rule for successful writing: namely, that it possesses the "capacity to astonish...
...Richardson also urges the Administration to drop its laissez-faire stance toward OPEC and exert pressure on the cartel to raise exports of crude oil. OPEC voted this month to maintain its output at 24.2 million barrels a day. But it will meet again in July to consider raising prices if Iraq continues to withhold oil from the market as part of a running dispute with the U.N. over sanctions...
...Minutes, the weekend magazine of The Crimson, printed an endpaper-a personalized opinion piece-by Justin G. "Juice" Fong '03, on March 15, entitled "The Invasian." The piece bombastically criticized what Fong considered the self-segregating tendencies of Asian Harvard students, often resorting to what many readers saw as crude negative stereotypes...
...cutlery. Here's how the experimental software works. You don an electrode-studded cap that monitors brain waves and sends data to a computer that displays a virtual spoon. Different types of mental activity produce distinct signals in the brain, and the computer can discern, in a crude way, what's going on inside your head. To make the spoon bend, you have to relax. When the computer detects signals from a calm brain, the spoon begins to wilt...
...like any other cells, need oxygen and nutrients to survive. At first they eat their way through healthy tissue, looking for blood vessels to tap for these essentials. Eventually, though, they start to grow their own capillaries and vessels, like oil companies eager to guarantee a steady flow of crude...