Word: tastelessness
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...most of the morning, between bouts that is, Valenzuela wore a "tasteless and gaudy" Harvard Lampoon T-shirt, and from the way he fenced, it was an appropriate tag for his performance. Valenzuela managed to win seven of his 12 bouts, a respectable enough showing in itself, but fell far under the expectations that most people had held...
...House of Lords. At a fox hunt Jack incenses the party with a bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...
...COURSE, NAGGING truths haven't prevented this country from acting as though all is fine and dandy. Tasteless publicity and merchandise premiums awaited the first groups of returning POWs. Republican state committees in the Midwest are already scouring the group for possible political candidates. We should naturally be happy that these men have come home from prison. As Howard Zinn writes, "They are human beings and they deserve to be free...
...tribute to Hobson and his ineradicable imprint on Washington, some 2,000 friends and foes gathered two weeks ago at the Sheraton-Park Hotel for a testimonial dinner. The affair was held on a day named in his honor by Mayor Walter Washington, whom Hobson once described as "tasteless, colorless and odorless." Indeed, the mayor refused to buy a $5 ticket for the banquet. Typically, Hobson responded: "I've got to compliment him for his honesty. I wouldn't go to his testimonial either...
...time with The Savage Messiah Ken Russell has reduced the art of biography to semi-porno voyeurism in Bohemian meller terms the least we might expect from biography is a token effort at vensimulitude. But Russell ransacks the facts and substitutes his hyped-up version of artistic truth in tasteless tribute to the life of Henri Gaudier Brzeska...