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RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION: There are no rules about how much is safe, but the N.R.D.C. cites EPA figures showing that about 50 million Americans drink radon-tainted water. The tasteless, odorless gas, which seeps into water naturally from underground rocks in many areas, is a proven cause of both lung and rectal cancer...
...Stern's infamous specialty is mean-spirited, horrendously tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week...
Exactly what this country needs: a millionaire singing cowboy dropping stray lines that castigate folks on public assistance. Celebrating yahoos and their gunracks is a tasteless idea, conjuring up images of class warfare, and the usually savvy Brooks should know better. What led this otherwise appealing country singer into such a display of musical demagoguery can only confound his fans...
...convoluted plot centers on Pablo (Eusebio Poncela), a filmmaker whose fashionable, charmingly tasteless movies resemble Almodovar's. Pablo lives with his brother-cum-sister Tina (Carmen Maura) a religious transsexual actress. Pablo and Tina both want boyfriends...
...plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people. I came to this castle and to other governmental residences inherited from communism, and I was confronted with tasteless furniture and many tasteless pictures. Only then did I realize how closely the bad taste of former rulers was connected with their bad way of ruling. I also realized how important good taste was for politics. During political talks, the feeling of how and when to convey something...