Word: tastelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...menu alteration doesn't have to be dramatic-although dining hall memberships to the Williams-Sonoma "Fruit of the Month" club would be more than appreciated. But it's about time that Harvard realizes that fruit comes in more than three shapes and sizes. The tasteless elitism has got to stop...
Tales of these twisted relationships run from the tasteless to the tragic--from Brooke Shields' mother, who pushed her daughter around Hollywood like an ice-cream wagon, to Steffi Graf's crook of a father, who broke her heart. Tennis offers an especially good stage for watching these parents in action. There they sit in the best courtside seats, often functioning as "coaches," glaring stone-faced in fury or some other psychotic mood at their investment offspring, who are incidentally their children...
...suddenly remembered those pages. I have never read through those words, because a psycho stole them and absconded with them to Australia. At the time, I was distraught. There was every proof of all the people with whom I had ever shared any love--gone in a single tasteless move. But today, I think: Wastepaper. And by extension, wastepeople...
DIED. SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 66, children's author, playwright, Playboy cartoonist and Oscar-nominated songwriter; of a heart attack; in Key West, Fla. Silverstein, who served in the Korean War, was best known for writing and illustrating mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several...
...former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment, the journalist's software-entrepreneur wife, the wife's vulpine media-mogul boss--alternately cavort and limp through the very near future, you get deep inside the tent of both old and new media, where the egos are as large and as tasteless as the limos...