Word: tastelessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...incident in question involved two very drunk young college males who seemingly decided to play a prank on one of their girlfriends by adorning her suite with swastikas and ludicrously incoherent statements such as “I love Adolf because he is king.” Realizing their tasteless mistake, they attempted to paint over the graffiti the next morning, only to be caught by police before they could complete their cleanup...
...have nothing to say…except that that is at least four bad episodes’ worth of material there. Simply tragic.All was not lost. In the middle of the show, Mischa Barton got to show off her acting chops. And they weren’t as tasteless as I had predicted! As Marissa sat down to write that aforementioned college essay about shooting Trey, she had a mental fit—complemented by flashbacks from the highlights (can you really call a murder a “highlight,” though?) of last season. When the scene...
...film, though, lies dormant in its own decency. Richard Attenborough's movies are like the best-behaved guests at a Swiss embassy reception; they never offend, never impress. So he will not force the narrative into revealing new corners, or visualize a number with anything as raw and tasteless as imagination. But discretion can take A Chorus Line only so far. Onstage the characters were small, vulnerable creatures on a big, bare stage; onscreen they must trumpet XXXXX aborted in midflight to concentrate on all the suffering wimpery of the plot. Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood...
...wouldn’t have had if we had done—well, say, ‘The Crucible’—is that this show is very controversial. It has a provocative nature, provocative design, and provocative content. Many people might interpret it as voyeuristic or tasteless...
...astounding that Grynbaum suggests that Harvard alumni support for Hitler in 1934 can be equated with “tasteless stuff that goes on” today. And it is inappropriate for anyone to claim that I just have it in for Harvard. My criticism of Harvard is motivated by my research findings, namely that highly educated Americans capable of exerting influence against barbarism chose at critically important moments to help legitimate the Hitler regime...