Word: tastelessness
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This childish and witless retort was inspired last weekend by an equally tasteless cheer ("Harvard sucks"), and while both cheer probably contain some measure of truth, the explicit elitism makes the Crimson response far more offensive. In that self-satisfying chant, students and alumni--the most enthusiastic of whom were doubtless drawn from waiting lists--showed what is worst about Harvard...
...forced out of business, big operators are holding their own. The "revenoo" recently seized 1,146 gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White lightning may yet find its uses. Once, when an agent cleaned off his fingerprinting machine with some confiscated corn, he found that it dissolved ink much faster than commercial solvents. Lightning fast...
...Post column, speculated about whether Nixon should receive a state funeral or a modest ceremony commensurate with his inglorious exit from office. A state affair, Raspberry warned, might result in "the inflaming of anti-Nixon passions and renewed political strife." Raspberry worried whether "someone will be sufficiently hateful and tasteless to do something that would shatter whatever dignity a state funeral would confer." Picketing the bier? Stoning the hearse...
...supper. His angers and resentments are sheathed in intelligence, learning, scatological wit and showmanship. One thinks of Redd Foxx before he was San-fordized, or Philip Roth confronting his middle-class American Jewish background in ways that have been judged, perhaps too hastily, as self-hateful and tasteless. Likewise, many blacks may find themselves both amused and offended by The Last Days of Louisiana Red, a combination circus freak show, detective story, Negro Dead Sea Scroll and improvised black-studies program...
...cynical satire he seems to have hoped he was making, he simply botched his assignment. Frankenheimer's flair for action sequences-a chase involving a school bus, a shootout in a giant, steaming laundry-can still be summoned up. But the rest of the film is heartless, tasteless and noisily desperate. It is always sad to see an overreacher turn into an underachiever, but to find the tense talent capable of The Manchurian Candidate busying himself with feckless projects like this is infuriating. When Frankenheimer's contempt for the picture is not seeping onto the screen, his weariness...