Word: tasteless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This letter is in response to The Crimson's editorial of October 2, 1986, and the accompanying tasteless cartoon about the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program and new AIDS testing policy. The editorial inaccurately represents the issue and "A Boyd's Eye View" was more myopic than insightful. The essay was particularly disturbing because it is typical of the campus misconception about ROTC and ignored the many pertinent reasons why Harvard students should be allowed to participate in the program...
...less fat and 36% fewer calories than ordinary beef, although the cholesterol content is not significantly lower. Chianina is a descendant of a breed raised in the Chiana Valley of Italy since Roman times. Cooked as directed, the rather pale meat with slightly yellowish fat was virtually tasteless except for slight acidic overtones. Most successful was the steak, pan-grilled and served very rare. What little fat there was in Chianina cuts had an unpleasant waxy aftertaste that marred roasts and stews. In addition, the braised cuts were extremely dense when cooked because they were too lean...
...teacher played by Lise Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles...
...editorial cartoon run in The Crimson on April 30, 1986, was a tasteless guffaw at the expense of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Donahue's cartoon, for the benefit of those who missed it, portrays a chagrined bear (emblazoned with a hammer and sickle) losing his fur while a nuclear power plant explodes in the backround. Viewing the Chernobyl disaster simply as a political embarassment to the Soviet government, rather than as a human tragedy, is repugnant. Whatever one's opinion of the Soviet government, it is incumbent upon us to sympathize with the Russian and Ukrainian peoples...
...something borrowed and something very blue. The plot, about an amiable gang of two-bit black crooks trying to burgle a Chicago pawnshop, is adapted from a 1958 Italian film, Big Deal on Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from the '20s and '30s have been wittily reconsidered by Fosse and bewitchingly orchestrated by Ralph Burns. I've Got a Feelin...