Word: tasteless
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Whether they hail from the land of beets and borscht, knockwurst and Heineken, bark and betel nuts, or milk and honey, there is one issue on which foreign students at Harvard unanimously and vociferously agree: American food is greasy, bland and tasteless...
...Studmuffins. Saturday Night has no organized format. A jumble of political satire, tasteless jokes and off-balance sketches is delivered by the rambunctious "Not Ready for Prime Time Players," a cast of mostly unknowns who have a breezy informality that makes Carol Burnett and Archie Bunker look like waxworks. President Ford falls over all the time on SN, crying, "No problem." Viewers are urged to send samples of marijuana to be tested for quality. Don Vito Corleone is trapped in a therapy session with a blonde who screams, "You're blocking, Vito"; female hardhats rib male passersby: "Hi, studmuffins...
...emasculation of the magazine. Since Israel has no pornography law, the courts may well agree. Until the courts act, male employees at Steimatzky's Agency will dutifully wield their black-magic markers. Says he: "We wouldn't ask women to do it because it would be tasteless...
...tsked-tsked, one would think her admission was endangering national security. Only last year TIME did a cover story that in part took political wives to task for their dreary role playing. Now that we have a First Lady who speaks her mind, she is branded as tasteless. No wonder so many political wives hide behind frozen smiles and innocuous comments...
Secretary of the Treasury William Simon's tasteless joke about selling New York City to the Shah of Iran can be charged to his Wall Street background. But Gotham is no item on the commodity market. You cannot barter the vision of Washington at the Treasury Building or at Fraunces Tavern. There can be no dollar value on the pride one feels passing the site on Grove Street, where Tom Paine spent his last days, or at the site of Stats Huys, where Peter Stuyvesant read the mandate making New Amsterdam a haven for all people for all time...