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Word: tastelessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...David Letterman is attacked by for admittedly tasteless joke about daughter of after being attacked by for referring to the "slutty flight attendant look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

...like to believe that our behavior is entirely rational and governed by our conscious mind, our thoughts and actions are often driven by the roles we learned in our families as children. And under pressure, we tend to revert to old patterns. That fellow standing at the watercooler telling tasteless jokes at the top of his lungs, for instance, probably comes from a family saddened by some painful event (a serious chronic illness, an early death), where his job as a child was to try to cheer everyone else up. The teammate who will do almost anything to avoid confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Your Co-Workers Act like Children | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...accordingly, drinking serves only anti-social ends: a collection of unconnected individuals, stumbling out crudely in search of a good time, each alone to enjoy his pleasure and his pain, as long as his own thirst for amusement has been slaked. The popular preference—a cheap and tasteless spirit like vodka, which lends its intoxicating power but not its taste to whatever accompaniment—is indicative. Alcohol has become a mere drug...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: In Vino Veritas | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...BlackCAST,” says current BlackCAST president Camille I. Mason ’11. “I know past presidents considered letting Eleganza just become independent.”As the show skirts the line between fashion show and entertainment production in a manner some have deemed tasteless, it remains uncertain how successfully Eleganza promotes the integration of diverse traditions and cultures into the arts—a mission it allegedly shares with BlackCAST.There is some worry that Eleganza has placed too much focus on scantily clad models and provocative dancing and too little on being a celebration...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Posing a Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...ticket stubs, my first license, my last loan payment, the rehearsal bouquet made from the ribbons from my bridal shower, and a shoebox full of key chains and charms and snow globes. Souvenir means "to remember"; I wonder why we tend to associate the word with the tacky and tasteless, rather than with the most precious collectible of all: the memory of the moments that make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama, and the Rush For Election Souvenirs | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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