Word: declasse
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...Moore, MASH, Taxi-has given way to jokes built around bustlines and pratfalls. Out goes the humor of social complicity, of reasonably mature characters; in stomps the japery of sexual humiliation, in which grimly aggressive caricatures swat each other with gag lines. Mary Richards' chic office wear is declassé; this year's line consists of tank tops and tight jeans. Goodbye, Golden Age of TV comedy; hello, Little Annie Fanny. Watch 'em and weep: the age of the smutcom is upon...
...also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin into South Viet Nam as a means of demoralizing American forces while picking up considerable foreign exchange. With the exception of a few teenage "cowboys" and bar girls, Vietnamese shun heroin, which they regard as declassé and crass compared to opium. Virtually all of it goes into American bloodstreams. In efforts to get Saigon to clamp down on traffickers, the U.S. has already offended the sensitive pride of Vietnamese sovereignty by insisting on stricter customs inspections...
...liked the idea. Hair is not the hippiest, or the grooviest possible way of saying it; but at least it's saying it. A lot of people would say, 'It's so declass- it's a piece of shit,' but you gotta start by shovelling the shit out first...
...LAUGHING LADY-Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing room. As the somewhat declassé Lady Marjorie, she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant, married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court...
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