Word: crass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where did the Arcadian side of Pop go? Down the memory hole, into the unrecoverable past, along with the America it represented. The crass, brash commercial imagery that the Pop artists seized on is still there, looming even larger than it did 30 years ago, but it no longer offers art the same possibilities. The optimism of '60s Pop makes it look more romantic than it used to. Having been propaganda for its own culture, some of it has turned into history painting of a quite poignant sort. Robert Rauschenberg's Retroactive II, 1964, with its spaceman and its young...
...time line on gay life in the U.S. in his Dave Brandstetter series. No current mystery writer has better exploited this potential -- or better served readers with riveting storytelling and acutely observed human nature -- than James McClure in his eight novels about two South African policemen. The cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced in The Steam Pig, published in 1971. Their teamwork, affectionate but circumscribed, full of macho blarney and teasing but also tinged with racial irony, subtly evoked the quirky diplomacy of a society where whites insist on ruling...
Yalman's use of the word "pansy" is tantamount to saying that an African-American is not an "Uncle Tom", or that a woman is not a "bitch." Maybe these crass analogies will convey to the professor, to his readers and to the editors who allowed his comments to be printed without note, the offensiveness of "pansy" to the gay community...
...Shakespeare's first comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona lacks both complexity and freshness. The play contains the early prototypes of what will become Shakespeare's stock characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
...fact he [O'Brien] would single me out without Bulger shows this is a crass political move without any credibility whatsoever," Dershowitz said. "I have been looking for an objective neutral forum and the Board of Bar Overseers provides such a forum...