Word: tastelessness
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...people like Jeph Gurecka start calling these items art, it might push the prices up even further. The New York City-based sculptor and performance artist - famed for making artwork from decomposing food - is currently collecting menus from plane crashes. Gurecka calls this grisly labor his "last supper" project. Tasteless or not, most of the collections reveal an innate fascination with travel, invariably rooted in a time when trips seemed more exciting than they do now. One wonders if the overcrowded hub-to-hub travel of today is likely to breed as ardent a generation of collectors. Indeed, with...
...rapper in the heart of Detroit, isn’t ready to extend that open-mindedness to gays and women. Also, aside from the level of self-referencing that’s become proper form in rap, some of Eminem’s music displays a tasteless, offensive level of egotism that Cobain would have despised. In an MTV interview from a few years ago, Eminem explained the meaning of his song “Stan,” which tells the story of a crazed fan whose obsession with Eminem endangers both himself and his family. The rapper said...
...find the article by Luke Smith ’04 (Comment, “A Harvard Boy in Love,” Feb. 26) tasteless and embarrassing. I feel sorry for Harvard women that they would have to be compared in whatever sense to the heartless, empty person that is called Ann Coulter. Smith or any Harvard “boy” should look closer at Coulter’s website and realize that she is not a person that women or men should emulate...
...mink coat. And she carried the note in a place that was not, strictly speaking, a pocket. Oh, and Eszterhas also tells us that he slept with Sharon Stone, and that it wasn't that great. Classy. The trouble with this kind of thing is that it's tasteless without even being...
...could probably also deem the ending, in which Mary loses her virginity just as her mother commits suicide, as being almost tasteless in its unsubtlety; in this ending, as throughout the evening, The River proved itself more successful in deploying cliches than in mustering dramatic credibility...