Word: tastelessness
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...evidence, in fact, sustains the conviction that the average American knows how to handle his liquor. Strong whiskeys continue to lose popularity; bourbon is slipping even in the South. Light Scotches are In; vodka, which is odorless and tasteless and mixes with everything, now rivals gin in popularity-though the traditional martini seems to be holding its own. The drink taken on the rocks-which tastes weaker and lasts longer-is gaining. And so is the drink thoroughly diluted with such mixes as orange and tomato juice and beef broth. Most bartenders will even make a spirit-free Bloody Mary...
...understand the working man. "I had a grandfather who was a miner," he muses, "until he sold it." The larger its targets, the more petty grows the film. In deliberately choosing to caricature one of the most justifiable conflicts of Western history, War frequently displays a kind of tasteless, nose-thumbing anti-jingoism, as when a ventriloquist appears with a gross, grating dummy modeled on Winston Churchill...
...deplorable that sex in poor taste is exploited to advertise certain products and services. It is also a fact that we buy products and services so advertised, whether we approve of the advertising or not. If most of us refused to buy things sold with tasteless advertising, with over-emphasis on sex, the advertisers would have to abandon those methods. I feel as strongly on this...
...wherever he goes. (Dickey has had the full Life magazine treatment, with photographs of him in his various uniforms.) More to the point, his critics deplore the occasional unrevised look of his poems--and certainly he can be, at times, both prolix and dull. Some would call him tasteless, but after all, tastes differ...
...herewith deny that I authored the tasteless albeit clever letter to the editor [Sept. 8] attributed to "Pat McGann...