Word: tastelessness
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...course, nothing tops Lynah Rink for crowd crudity and enthusiasm. Chickens are tied to goalposts between periods. Strange--often tasteless--objects are thrown on the ice during play. And the noise level would drown out the Concorde...
...shudder at the thought of a naked lawn. The place is crowded with hundreds of objects designed to satisfy every yearning: there are pedestals holding colored glass balls that resemble huge Christmas-tree ornaments, 6-ft.-tall ranch-style windmills, plastic pink flamingos -- and some items that are downright tasteless, notably a painted wooden figure that depicts an obese woman bending over, seen from behind. "I won't go so far as to say we're the biggest in the business," says Harper. "I heard of some place in Chicago that has a pretty big stock. But we do have...
...Probably only Lloyd Webber could have written his Requiem as a memorial to his father and then turned the Pie Jesu into a hit song (sung by Brightman and a boy soprano) that climbed to No. 1 on the British charts. To some, that was marketing savvy; to others, tasteless calculation. "It was not in one's head that one could have a Top Ten hit from a piece in Latin," Lloyd Webber told a British interviewer. "But that doesn't mean I'm not delighted that it happened...
...wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...
...think it's rude and tasteless," said one freshman who asked not to be identified. "I might get some of that sort of item if it cost nothing...