Word: crudeness
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...very fact that a number of worthies have seen fit to trumpet their own impeccably high standards by suspending or canceling roles and engagements in which Goodwin would have performed both brilliantly and honorably suggests a rather crude moral and scholarly calculus on their part, but that is a subject for another time. My only purpose here is to help set the record straight by speaking up, as one scholar who values his own integrity and reputation for meticulous attribution as much as anyone could, for one of the truly outstanding historians of our time, who eloquently brings to life...
...Audio, Lord lived as a squatter in a room where the heat was operated by an electricity meter that ran on 50-pence coins. One day a street musician asked her to hold his guitar while he went to the bathroom. Lord, whose guitar skills at the time were crude at best, took the opportunity to play one of the few songs she knew, John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery.” “I really sucked,” she recalls in an interview a few days after the Newbury appearance. When...
...from the same black cloth. Their sense of impunity, of adolescent entitlement, of imagined roguish grandeur are identical - even if the size of their respective stages are different. For that reason, they should be treated the same. Slap them down, lock them up, expose them for the small and crude things they almost always are. For our own sakes, however, let's stop making them the giant figures we seem to need them...
...angry and determinedly flatulent?and if you've got something against that, you're obviously not a teenage Chinese girl. Mashimaro is the hippest cartoon mascot in the world's largest market. (Do you hear that, Hello Kitty?) Created in 1999 by Korean cartoonist Kim Jae-In, Mashimaro's crudely funny animated adventures have been adopted by countless Chinese teens and loaded onto their websites. Like his cutesy Japanese predecessor's, Mashimaro merchandise is hot. For the new "pink-collar class"?trendy Chinese girls with a cell phone in one hand and a decaf skim latte in the other?Mashimaro...
...crude polemic by Ross G. Douthat ’02 depicting Fidel Castro as equivalent to Adolf Hitler and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Mario Coyula as the equal of Albert Speer (Column, “Albert Speer at Harvard,” March 4) deserves condemnation on at least three grounds...