Word: shamelessness
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Showing off their real talent--for publicity--the Sex Pistols announced a reunion tour last week, complete with shameless p.r. stunts like an offer to hold a benefit concert for Princess Di. A bit too wrinkled to carry off anarchic rage these days, the Pistols nevertheless do a good impression of greed. "We don't see eye to eye," says Johnny Rotten of his band members. "But we have a common interest: your money...
...premiere of Dana Carvey's new comedy show two weeks ago--was this a plug or a parody of lead sponsor Taco Bell? It was hard to tell as the fast-food duo sang, "We're paying him a fortune to use our name, 'cause he's a shameless whore...
...barrier of protective shame, the raw sewage of the country's id (pornography, crime, a general violent rottenness and social stupidity) seeps upward, into the ego and superego. A kind of moral imbecility smells up the public places. Life in America begins to look like a long afternoon of shameless, aberration-of-the-day television talk shows, tacky and moralistic by turn, the sleepwalking rhythms interrupted at precise intervals by bursts of bright commercial adrenaline...
...Crimson's staff editorials have sometimes been poorly argued or logically unsound. However, in recent memory, the Crimson has not printed anything quite as embarassing as today's shameless advertisement for the Coca-Cola corporation. The staff's hysterical endorsement of Coke pollutes this page with obscene commercialism. What's worse is that The Crimson, unlike other Harvard organizations like the Undergraduate Council and Phillips Brooks House, did not even receive any financial compensation for its support of a carbonated beverage...
...Bible Belt and the isolated pockets of the country where fundamentalism and fanaticism still rear their low brow heads. At campaign rallies, prayer breakfasts and fund raising dinners, he will constantly draw attention to his gnarled fist, until even his most ardent supporters desert him, disgusted by his shameless antics...