Word: crudely
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Unfortunately, I could relate. When I dated a Berklee College of Music student last February, I immediately noticed the difference between him and Harvard guys. On our first date, he casually tossed around the word “fuck,” which seemed unimaginably crude to me until I realized that I used the word all the time. While I was wearing what could be called an outfit, he was dressed in a baseball cap, T-shirt, and jeans—a get-up that never varied on our subsequent dates...
...When Outlaws Get The Bomb Kim Jong Il's crude blast punctuates a scary reality: the law of the jungle now governs the race for nuclear arms
...Plain and simple, when I wake up in the morning, I piss excellence.” Perhaps Hollywood should take a couple notes from Ricky Bobby; his crude ballad pinpoints just what the film industry has been lacking—excellence. In fact, the big studios have been giving us just about everything but excellence. “Snakes on a Plane,” anyone? Despite slightly better box office results this summer compared to last, movieland is still shaky territory. With quick big-screen-to-DVD turnaround, in-home theater options and technologies—On Demand...
Having vanquished Venezuela's political establishment, Chvez has set his sights on bigger targets. Exploiting the fact that the U.S. gets about 15% of its foreign oil from Venezuela, he pushed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, of which Venezuela is a founding member, to pump up crude prices. In 1998, Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly, PDVSA, earned less than $14 billion in export revenue; this year it is expected to rake in almost $40 billion. In 2002 the White House was widely perceived to have backed a failed coup attempt against Chvez. (The Bush Administration denies...
...Bolivarian Revolution, to shake up what he calls the U.S.-dominated "imperialist order" - in which he includes the U.N. In the past few years he has been jetting around the world - bankrolled by the epic oil revenues earned today by Venezuela, which has the hemisphere's largest crude reserves - to forge a more coordinated alliance of developing nations, Iran among them, whose antipathy for Washington is as ardent as his. But autumn in New York has become perhaps Chavez's favorite yanqui-bashing moment each year, the time when he can freely make his Villa-spirited raid on U.S. soil...