Word: crudeness
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...This innocence and harmlessness was not to be found on Thursday night. With the tinted windows of my Mercury Sable and a crude tape of Nine Inch Nails's Further Down the Spiral, the next destination was the Centrum in the beautiful metropolis of Ye Olde Worcester. With the luxury an intimate small venue gone, I was forced to tolerate stadium seating and a snack bar at the rock concert. But the event, lovingly called the "Sick and Twisted" tour, was more a spectacle than a concert. At an outrageously early 6:30pm, Mindless Self Indulgence mounted the stage...
...have spent most of his time as deputy director of the backwater House of German-Soviet Friendship in Leipzig collecting, analyzing and passing on bits of information. He was thought to be close to his counterparts in the East German intelligence service, Stasi, who were notorious for their crude repression, though he claims he "never saw it." He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, respectable but hardly stellar...
...poignant is his handwriting. Lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--had the boy himself sign court papers seeking U.S. asylum. Elian, they said, is capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case and agreed with Attorney General Janet Reno that only the Cuban father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, can speak for a child that young. "Each passing...
...expect relief from higher gas prices any time soon, despite OPEC's agreement to raise output. The oil-producing cartel and its non-member allies agreed Tuesday on a 1.7 million barell-a-day increase in the amount of crude they pump, in response to pressure from the U.S. for a 2.5 million-barrel-a-day increase. "Washington was pushing for 2.5 million a day in the hope that it would bring quicker relief to U.S. consumers," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "Even an increase of 1.7 million won't bring U.S. energy prices down that much...
Because no one chants crude remarks at my opponents, does not make my varsity sport experience any less important...