Word: tastelessness
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...Golden Egg," you say that the gifts to the Governors [Nov. 22] were "a little tasteless." I beg to differ with you. Twas nothing more than a gracious act on the part of the people of the state of Georgia...
...long as Brautigan stays light his talent for whimsy can carry him along. But when the jester feels it necessary to make a serious point his pretentiousness and predictability are unbearable. He stretches a tasteless metaphor about a 24-hour pig slaughter house into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only...
...just as union negotiators must make villains of management-even after they get a settlement satisfactory to their members-so Meany & Co. must keep up the fiction of fighting Phase II. In his keynote address, the 77-year-old AFL-CIO boss put on a sometimes tasteless show of personal invective. The 15-member Pay Board, he claimed, is a "stacked deck" against labor, and its president, retired Federal Judge George Boldt, "doesn't know a damn thing...
...total value of the gifts was probably no more than $250, a mere trifle on the grand scale of serious payola. Still, there was something a little tasteless about the Governors of the nation's poorest region consenting to accept such material favors. Perhaps it could have been worse. "One year, in another state," said an aide to Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, "all the wives were given mink coats. That may have been a bit much...
...lull followed as the conference waited for the revised resolution on George Jackson. Suddenly a frail woman rushed the mike and branded the discussion of the Jackson statement "tasteless and obscene." "A man has been killed," she screamed. "Do we think that our sentiments are so goddamned important?" Staggering in shock, the clergy and laymen retreated into sorrowful prayer. One of the few blacks in the room--a woman--began softly: "We Shall Overcome...