Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Participants also argued about what constitutes racism. Choo drew a distinction between "tactless" joking and racism, but others said they consider all derogatory remarks about color or origin "racist...
Much of Jenninger's speech was tactless. He made lengthy references to Hitler's support from the German people and asked rhetorical questions about Nazi atrocities: "And as far as the Jews were concerned, hadn't they claimed for themselves in the past a role that wasn't right for them? Hadn't they deserved being put back in their place...
...accusation that Khrushchev had undervalued other members of the Presidium and was tactless in dealing with them was a serious one. There was a considerable measure of truth in it. Everyone recalled old and new insults...
Andrew Osborne's portrayal of the near-perfect jerk Shelley Levine also turned my head. Levine's voice booms at the most tactless moments, and he waves his cigar mercilessly at anyone within striking distance. Osborne turns lines meant simply for character development into some of the best lines in the show, and he interrupts Williamson and even himself frequently and flawlessly: "There's more than one man for the...Put a...wait a second, put a proven man out...and you watch, now wait a second--and you watch your dollar volumes." His moods, ranging from quavering confidence...
That shift came dramatically and unexpectedly. The representative of the city's unfashionable eastern district for more than a decade, Agnos badly trailed Front Runner Molinari in early polls and fund raising. But tactless campaign mailings and a poor television-debate performance hurt Molinari. Agnos' superb grass-roots organization, as well as his advocacy of rent controls and affordable housing, turned the campaign around. Agnos nearly outpolled all ten other candidates in November's general election to set up last week's landslide...