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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...summarily dismissed. But "Utah: home of that snotty Sundance Film Festival" pleased the Senator greatly. "Robert Redford is a liberal Democrat. What do you expect?" he said. And after we tried to come up with a line about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Senator, afraid of seeming vulgar, wisely said, "I think we had better be careful about the choir." Someone was still feeling burned from bringing up the pubic hair on the Coke can during the Clarence Thomas hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utah: Where U Come First | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...mail, Hewitt described American Pie as "crass" and "vulgar" and said that she "was sorry that [they] picked one like that...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer School Cancels Movies | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...Giuliani time!" as he prepares for the film's final showdown--a reprise of a cruel reference to New York City's hard-line mayor that was famously and falsely attributed to the cop who tortured Abner Louima. If that isn't enough, contrast this Shaft's vulgar behavior toward a black woman in the film's only romantic sequence with the original Shaft's tender, though hardly exclusive relationship with his girlfriend. The new Shaft is neither a heroic knight errant nor a sex machine; he's just another ego-tripping homicidal misogynist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Why We Now Can't Dig Shaft | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Disbelief. Denial. Those are bad words, not because they're vulgar but simply because they both start with a big, bad, green "D," serving as constant reminders of the green-clad skaters from New Hampshire who beat the Harvard women's hockey team all three times they played...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Given No Chance at Title | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...lavish mini-series follows Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a charismatic kitchen boy who insinuates and murders his way to power within the tired, decaying House of Groan. Unlike many American fantasy minis, it's neither a ponderous classics lesson nor a sugarcoated trifle, but a grotesquely funny, vulgar and penetrating tale of class and demagogy with pointed meaning for Britons. "In Gormenghast, you have this rusty royal family--well, I don't need to say more about that, do I?" says producer Estelle Daniel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anarchy from the U.K. | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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