Word: tastelessness
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...Journal with respect, some harsher thrusts are directed at the paper's supposedly smug and selfish readers. One story reports that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism is not the major cause of economic deprivation for blacks. Help-wanted...
...Kempinski's play is a melancholy partita-two characters, six scenes-about a brilliant violinist struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis, and the psychiatrist who tries to help her. The plot may seem a tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...
...FACE OF its Herculean labors I never imagined I'd write an unfavorable review of the American Premiere Stage, let alone vigorously trash it. But I never imagined it would be so tasteless and cowardly, that it would champion plays this terrible. After rejecting the "let's-incinerate-them-so-that-a-phoenix-may-rise-from-the-ashes" philosophy of theatre criticism in principle, I find I must invoke it in this instance...
Before I saw So Fine, I tried to think up clever ways to describe what I was sure would be yet another tasteless sex comedy. How many ways are there to say dumb, unfunny, and sexist? I almost wished I had seen Bo's A Change of Seasons just so I could draw some comparisons...
...Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time in New York City, MacMillan's La Fin du Jour, a febrile evocation of the vanished world of the Bright Young Things...