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...past three months, we've been getting plain grilled chicken. It's tasteless. It pisses me off," says Young Byun...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: FEEDBACK | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...Everyone that I have shown this forwarded e-mail to has laughed, and then commented on how awful it was. Sure, maybe it is funny. But humor is not always good. Just what is it that is so funny? Jokes certainly spring up quickly, and are usually tasteless, but this joke is far from just that, for it clearly illustrates the divide between the haves and have-nots...

Author: By Rachel L. Barenbaum, | Title: Harvard Has Ebonic Fever | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...show belongs to a breed of prime-time series that pumps along year after year without the benefit of buzz, or even hum. Like a Kraft casserole your in-laws just won't stop serving, Fox has offered up the tasteless Married...with Children for close to 10 years now. Meanwhile, even though the media stopped paying attention back when the cast was taking its PSATs, the kids on Fox's Beverly Hills 90210 have been slogging--in real time--through high school and four years of college. ABC's Family Matters and its alien-voiced, freak man-child Steve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: YES, URKEL STILL LIVES | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Exchanges between umpires and players take place in almost every game, but this one degenerated into something more. It became more than just a dispute over a strike; it was classless, tasteless, and the spit will stick on Alomar for the rest of his career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spitting Image | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

Another group of students raised a more serious objection. They didn't mind the sukkah per se, but they found the "Harvest Festival" that was held in it on Sunday night to be a tasteless, almost cynical manipulation of religious traditions in the name of multicultural diversity. The festival incorporated Jewish, Chinese and neo-pagan ideas about the harvest season. Several Chinese students door-dropped a "silent protest" to residents, arguing that the differences between religious traditions should not be blurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion, Dunster-Style | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

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