Word: uncouth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they're trite they're so trite. And Nelson's voice needs a bit more coaching (perhaps from Toni Braxton?) before he launches himself into another love-stricken psychological miasma. The brothers' remake of "I'll Make Love to You," is torture as well. The uncouth vocals added to the wondrous jazz music would make Babyface cringe. Yet overall, if you ignore the background vocals, the Braxton Brothers' Steppin' Out is a truly engaging debut album, which clearly shows that the brothers might become a household name in the coming years...
...reported that the co-founders of the Yahoo! search engine picked the name out of the dictionary [THE INTERNET ECONOMY, July 20]. My dictionary defines yahoo as a race of brutes in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have all the vices of men. A secondary meaning: an uncouth or rowdy person. Are the company's founders proud of that appellation? ROBERT J. BYRNE St. Louis...
...delighted by his daughter's birth. Named for her mother, and thus a constant reminder of Dr. Sloper's loss, Catherine (Leigh) grows up with little hope of connecting with her distant, resentful father. Worse, Austin's sister Lavinia (Maggie Smith) fancies herself a surrogate mother but is too uncouth and undisciplined to make of Catherine a sophisticated lady...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...moment right before the play in which an employee from the theater comes on stage and informs audience members on how to become members of the Huntington "subscriber family," rattling off a series of prices, discounts and package deals. The infomercial aspect of this interlude is uncouth, and both the Huntington representative and the audience are made uncomfortable...