Word: tastelessness
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...opponents feared would mar some real history nearby: Manassas National Battlefield, scene of two of the most important Civil War battles. The midnight decision stunned both backers of the project, like Virginia Governor George Allen, and others who thought planned slavery exhibits and other parts of the enterprise sounded tasteless...
When a 32-year-old man suddenly died in Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1985, the local medics assumed the cause to be pneumonia. After they found out it was AIDS, some of them made tasteless jokes about the man's sexuality and others suggested they bury his respirator. It was not that they were ill-intentioned, as Abraham Verghese points out in My Own Country (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23); it was simply that AIDS, to say nothing of homosexuality, was something that happened somewhere else. For a quiet Bible Belt town of dance halls and churches (72 of them...
...digitally enhanced photos were tasteless, I though, but I did not let my Luddite I though, but I did not let my misery, I at least wanted a stiff, stale piece of gum as compensation. But the baseball card industry, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that gum stains depreciate the value of cards too much, and would hurt collecting...
...with such accusations, it is not surprising that Professor van der Merwe has denied engaging in any form of sexual harassment. The students allege only that he has told some tasteless jokes. "These allegations are ridiculous," he tells us. And he is absolutely right...
Take, for example, mushy tomatoes. Yes, those tomato slices look so firm and juicy when you plop them on your salad, but are soon revealed to be watery, tasteless fakes. Of course they're left on our plates at the end of the meal; eating them could put you off tomatoes for life...