Word: tastelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glorified people who have become grotesquely wealthy and downplayed their negative impact on society. In many cases the detrimental effects have far outweighed any benefits incurred. Sam Walton created a company that has destroyed thousands of small businesses. Ray Kroc and McDonald's have given us unhealthy, tasteless food and a lot of low-paying jobs. Worst of all was your choice of builder William Levitt and Levittown's clone houses. Similar suburban developments have resulted in the paving over of thousands of acres of farmland and forest. These people were not visionaries; they were opportunists who diminished the American...
...good for Robin; she has just been dumped (not for her daughter, though), and she can't quite seem to figure out how to attend cocktail parties and remain sober for more than ten minutes. She visits a professional whore (Bebe Neuwirth) for sexual advice. This unravels into a tasteless scene of two grown women simulating oral sex on bananas, the new Mia Farrow predictably performing less than swimmingly. Later on she remarks that she has turned from an English teacher into the kind of woman she hated previously, but she's happier now. It is funny that in attacking...
Perhaps it is fitting that a character who does not know who he is not is played by an actor who does know how to play him (Am I Woody? Am I not?). Allen's allegory about how tasteless we have become with our obsession with a syndicated world is, in its own way, a vapid world, inhabited by characters who are as silly...
...friend. The Judiciary Committee agreed to censor the numerous racial and ethnic jokes that Tripp and Monica Lewinsky made. Regardless of their relevance, if Clinton had made one of these jokes, it would have been front-page headlines. Why are Lewinsky and Tripp sheltered from public disclosure of their tasteless and biased remarks? ABE LIU Del Mar, Calif...
APRIL 25 Passes up White House correspondents' dinner: "It's tasteless for us to attend...