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Word: tasteless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both ad campaigns should be stopped. More than simply tasteless, ads of this sort are themselves small, but not trivial, examples of the violence that they thoughtlessly mock. But the fact that they happened in the first place underscores the lack of awareness in our community of the magnitude of these oppressive forms of violence. And it points to the importance of paying attention to a third poster which appeared at the same time as the other two. It, too talks about violence, but not in so glambrous or catchy a fashion. It calls for women and men to join...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take Back the Night | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

...money back, along with an end to a story nobody wanted to hear in the first place, one that, when it was finally played out, involved an array of several unattractive personalities, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the specter of baby selling, the suspicion of fraud and deception, and a tasteless denouement on a television talk show, where the M.C. spoke of "renting a womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Baby in the Factory | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...most tasteless scenes of the film, she unites the two adults in mock marriage. "We agree to be married for now because there is now always," she intones. "We will remember this pledge until we can no longer remember." Such lines are hard to forget, however, and although the performances are as credible as the script allows, the only moral of this crass and manipulative movie seems to be that even two Moores can add up to very little. -By Gerald Clarke

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ghoul's Delight | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Go Homeward, Angels | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...when he admitted he had been "brainwashed" into supporting the Vietnam War. Seeking the Democratic nod for the Oval Office four years later, Maine Sen Edmond S. Muskie permanently crippled his front-running campaign when he publicly wept in response to spurious charges about his wife leveled by the tasteless Manchester Union Leader...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Of Wimps and Toughs | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

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