Word: tastelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...theorist to recognize that some members of the Sociology Department suffer from an acute case of interdepartmental jealousy. Whatever you call it, the recent attacks on the academic legitimacy of Social Studies by Acting Chair of the Sociology Department Orlando Patterson and Professor of Sociology James A. Davis were tasteless and sophomoric...
...turn in scripts that are devoid of foul language lest the classification office impose the curse of a G (general) rating. Motion-picture exhibitors have a strong preference for the R (restricted) rating, probably on the theory of forbidden fruit. Hence writers and producers have every incentive to employ tasteless language and gory scenes...