Word: tastelessness
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Idea: Just once, switch the menus of breakfast and dinner. Hash browns and pancakes instead of Moroccan stew and tofu tiles. A pile of scrambled eggs and a hot waffle with coffee and orange juice instead of tasteless chuckwagon corn and a warm glass of Hi-C. All I can say is “Oh, baby...
...think Las Vegas is a quicksand of tasteless glitz and shameless spectacle. So does Dave Hickey, who figures that makes it the perfect place for art. Visual thrills are a local industry, mile-high neon and fake pyramids just part of the scenery. "Vegas aspires to visibility," he says. "Art is an extension and refinement of what Vegas is about...
...endpaper” I edited in the spring of 1986 which consisted of a compilation of space shuttle Challenger jokes. (The space shuttle had blown up in January ’86). While any number of people told me that they thought the jokes were tasteless and offensive, the person that really got to me was Brian Byrne, The Crimson’s press operator, who said that he personally knew the family of Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the accident and that he had been disgusted when he read the piece as it came off the press...
...Roll on, westbound plane. Technology, terror, advertising and prepackaged sleaze make for a pretty tasteless brew...
...good reason for despondency over the fate of the Palestinians, who now face an even more arrogant Israel. But this is not the time for sermonizing or moralizing over U.S. foreign policy. Had we Malaysians been the victims of such a tragedy, we would find such hectoring tasteless and repulsive...