Word: tasteless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...
...think it's rude and tasteless," said one freshman who asked not to be identified. "I might get some of that sort of item if it cost nothing...
...past couple of weeks, the nation has watched itself roll toward ruin because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter, incredulous, "What am I losing? My boat! My car! My home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers...
...June speech to the Central Committee plenum. And nothing in China can quite compare with Soviet TV shows like Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded to know why anyone even bothered to - grow them. Says a Chinese economist: "In his policy of glasnost and political restructuring, Gorbachev has posed a challenge to the Chinese. Our reforms began at the grass roots. In the Soviet Union, change is coming down...
...hiring of strippers, and the behavior which reportedly accompanied their acts, are exercises that portray people as objects in a degrading, dehumanizing and tasteless manner," the letter reads...