Word: tastelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's taking so long? Like Camille Paglia in the feminist literary sphere, D'Souza will say whatever it takes to attract attention, no matter how tasteless, irresponsible or distorted. He contends that white racism is no longer much of a problem in the U.S. Instead, all our racial troubles can be traced to the fact that "black culture" is so dysfunctional it amounts to a "civilizational" gap between African Americans and the rest of society. He does not bother to differentiate between the crime-ridden urban underclass and the middle-class high achievers such as Woodson, head...
...says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that the government lost enthusiasm for the case "once it recognized that the communication which so much alarmed the University of Michigan officials was only a rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction...
...some of them costing up to $1,400, Savoy is a purist who prefers French to English, forbids amplification at his jam sessions and plasters the walls of his workshop with chauvinistic folk homilies ("Some Cajuns are turning their back on a hot bowl of gumbo for a cold, tasteless American...
...that designers, sick of their own tasteless japes and worried about a retail market that has been sagging since 1992, have finally decided to take notice? The fall ready-to-wear shows that began in Milan in March and ended last week in New York City showed a dramatic shift in direction. In a fashion world that has seemed, in recent years, increasingly remote, self-involved and obsessed with stunts, it was a remarkable about-face. Call it a return to elegance, to wearability, to more realistic apparel with commercial appeal. Most designers, at last, seem willing to trade...
...from whom we have come to expect hard-nosed, objective reportage, free of the liberal bias plaguing the majority of his colleagues. In one stroke Lat betrayed his formerly clear-minded and salient perspective. If this is some kind of joke, it is a rude and tasteless affront to common decency and the last bastions of morality at the College. Lat should leave these sorts of "jokes" to his liberal colleagues...