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...sexual paraphiliac or even a proctologist to enjoy it, although it might help. Butt Trumpet is definitely not the noise you want to have playing in the background during a telephone interview. Enjoy the music, but be forewarned--even Beavis and Butthead could have trouble listening to something this crude. Well, maybe...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Butt Trumpet, What a Name... | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...laureate of the Yahoos, wants to stop federal funding for Public Broadcasting Services [Television, Jan. 23]. He calls public television a ``sandbox for the rich''--as if Big Bird were watched only by the kids of millionaires. PBS takes only a tiny fraction of the national budget, but this crude man would rather spend money on pet projects like Star Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

Sexual harassment is a good subject for legal briefs, psychological studies and outraged essays. It is not a natural topic for popular entertainments. Typically (to put it mildly), the protagonist lacks heroic stature, and it is hard to spin a plot of page-turning intricacy from such a crude offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX! CONTROVERSY! BOX OFFICE! | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...share a New York City apartment. The four sitcoms being introduced by Warner also have the familiar whiff of Fox: former Fox leading men Robert Townsend (Townsend Television) and Shawn and Marlon Wayans (In Living Color) star in broad and unfunny sitcoms, while Unhappily Ever After introduces another crude, dysfunctional family created by Married with Children co- creator Ron Leavitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Network Crazy! | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...unreformed communists and neofascists in Russia, President Boris + Yeltsin is a "drunken swine" who should be tested for dipsomania. That sneering dismissal is too crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's in Charge? | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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