Word: tasteless
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...Bush’s counterpart is certainly no stranger to this salacious type of advertising. Groups working for the Kerry campaign have released some of the most daunting, and tasteless, commercial attacks. Several such ads feature sensational shots of the Iraq war mixed with emotional accounts by family members of fallen soldiers...
...going to work towards making primetime programming more appropriate, it should do so uniformly—without singling out one network for something considerably less offensive than what most networks broadcast routinely. Pervasive sexual innuendo on sitcoms, the increasingly tasteless themes of reality television shows, and the lack of quality programming for kids is far more detrimental to the impressionable minds of tomorrow. But, given Powell’s record, Dartboard won’t hold her breath...
...subject. Its April 2004 issue featured an article that jokingly compared stereotypes of homosexuals and Asian men, employing a barrage of allusions and puns that ranged from the politically incorrect (“Ryan Seacrest Hair: Shellacked spikes, just like that crazy cool Americaaaaaaaan!”) to the tasteless (“Ladyboy fingers: Soft and long. Perfect for both waxing on and waxing off, plucking the koto, or gripping the kendo stick”) to the downright obscene (“Delicate features: refreshed by a cup of hot tea or a hot night of teabagging...
...Tasteless or not, most of the collections reveal an innate fascination with travel, invariably rooted in a time when trips seemed more exciting than they do now. One wonders if the overcrowded hub-to-hub travel of today is likely to breed as ardent a generation of collectors. Indeed, with the rise of no-frills airlines, hasn't much of the paraphernalia associated with flying all but vanished? For an answer, check out airlinemeals.net, the largest online collection of photos of airplane fodder. In the section belonging to low-cost carrier Ryanair, there's a picture of an empty table...
...people like Jeph Gurecka start calling these items art, it might push the prices up even further. The New York City-based sculptor and performance artist - famed for making artwork from decomposing food - is currently collecting menus from plane crashes. Gurecka calls this grisly labor his "last supper" project. Tasteless or not, most of the collections reveal an innate fascination with travel, invariably rooted in a time when trips seemed more exciting than they do now. One wonders if the overcrowded hub-to-hub travel of today is likely to breed as ardent a generation of collectors. Indeed, with...