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SPORT: If weather permits, skiing on Mount Royal is spectacular. Otherwise, gambling is a good bet. The Casino is gigantic, fluorescent and more or less the tackiest place ever...

Author: By Judith Batalion, | Title: montreal | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

VIDEO TV's tackiest hucksters come out late at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine contents page | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...those who do not believe, as comedian George Carlin professes, that life is just a big collection of stuff, the question remains: why the stuff? Din President Alexander F. Beckett, who created the theme, answers, "We went right for students' instincts. We knew the tackiest gimmick would draw people...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Free for All | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...could you ever up and die on us?" He can be outraged, as he was last February when the networks aired a cluster of exploitative TV movies on torture, rape, child abuse and teen-age prostitution: "Watching prime-time TV is like being trapped in Sleaze City's tackiest honkytonk. One gets a warped and depressing view of what it means to be alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Terrible Tom, the TV Tiger | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...people who once supported Carter, the draft-Kennedy forces claimed their candidate would do the spanking. In one of the tackiest political displays on record, Dade Country Democratic chairman Mike Abrams, a onetime Carter supporter recently claimed Carter had left "too many broken promises." The blacks, the Jews and even the Hispanic vote will go against Carter, he predicted. "The Cubans think Carter is weak; they want a macho man, like Kennedy." In the glee of the moment it seems they forgot Florida is not Kennedy Country...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: More Fun in the Sun | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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