Word: couth
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...They need as much couth up there as we do,” said Hecht, retired executive vice president of MIT’s alumni association. “Their manners have slipped, I can tell...
What does “UC” stand for: Un-Couth...
...wish the bouncers would go away/ Borrow water off this man/ Here goes nothing, O.K./ And I'm thinking, 'That's proper rank'/ Tastes like hairspray". The nervy excitement of a first date in Could Well Be In is portrayed with a tenderness that softens the lack of couth: "I saw this thing on ITV the other week/ It said if she plays with her hair then she's probably keen/ She's playing with her hair well regularly, so I reckon I could well be in." To some that might seem like adolescent blather, but like Eminem...
Even Carl Steadman, co-founder of the irreverent online daily Suck www.suck.com) reads the wood-pulp versions of three newspapers every day, despite the fact that each is published verbatim on the Web. "I find it so much more, shall we say, 'couth,' to read them at a cafe over a Frappuccino," Steadman says. "The paper delivers a much more personal experience...
This time, Edward Asner (Lou Grant) achieves the seemingly impossible by overplaying the loudmouth junkyard magnate Harry Brock, who is eight parts tyrant to one part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible...