Word: tastelessness
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...worst part is that this column has been a total failure. We put our hearts, souls, and every joke that we had made in the preceding week into every column, but it netted us nothing except tens of links to tasteless humor when you google our names. Even when we bared our disgusting, slutty, and totally irresponsible sex lives to the world, we didn’t get so much as a mention on IvyGate.com or a column in the Boston Globe. But the column helped us pick up girls, right? Not exactly, the one girl DA got through...
...dried. When Winehouse opts for smooth, tasteful jazz as in her sixth track, “Love Is A Losing Game,” she sounds more like Nancy Wilson than a rebel-punk Mary J. Blige. If she’s willing to go balls-to-the-walls tasteless in her lyrics, why not take it all the way and do something really crazy...
...local farmer and never refrigerated will retain more of its delicate leguminous flavor than one shipped in a frigid plane from Guatemala. And I realized that if more consumers didn't become part of the local-food market, it could disappear and all our peas would be those tasteless little pods from far away...
...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...
...What we must not ignore is the gross ineptitude of this film. As he previously demonstrated with Secretary, the director, Steven Shainberg, has a thoroughly nasty desire to degrade and humiliate female characters. This is combined with a truly tasteless eye for settings and d?cor, a staggering ignorance of nuance in performance and an apparent belief that the business of art is to repel rather than to seduce. Or rather to repel and then tack on a little spurious uplift as he finally does here. Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus...