Word: tasteless
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...offend and outrage. To their credit, these groups have largely abandoned the dining hall kiss-ins and other inflamatory tactics of years ago. But their presentation of the film, "Stop the Church," as well as their well-publicized protest of Secretary Sullivan's visit to Harvard last year were tasteless and needlessly offensive...
...assume that the editors believe that they are being satirical," said Adams House Senior Tutor Janet A. Viggiani. "However, in general I find it to be insensitive and tasteless, and I could certainly understand if some were to make the argument that certain portions of it constituted hate speech...
French officials hear that many Iraqi factories are closed or working half time; the nation's largest textile plant is said to be operating only eight hours a week. Egyptian laborers returning from Iraq report that bakers are being forced to mix barley with scarce flour to make a tasteless bread. As if to confirm such reports of hardship, Saddam Hussein's government last week decreed the death penalty for hoarders of wheat, barley, rice, flour and maize...
...never fear, I am learning something else, too. Who could possible fail to learn something from the "pinkers" posters? Only, I never really knew that people could engage in such gymnastic exercises. Furthermore, these posters stimulated my curiosity. I was simply dying to know who was tasteless enough to put such things up in public--not to mention who was tasteless enough to be photographed in such a compromising position. Unfortunately, I have not yet found the answers...
...multinational forces arrayed against Iraq. Yet many Japanese realized that simply handing out money was an insufficient gesture at a time when other nations were sending soldiers to risk their lives in the Saudi desert. In a newspaper interview, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, showing his occasional affinity for tasteless similes, declared, "If we were to try to settle everything with money, we would be viewed like the Merchant of Venice...