Word: tastelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget the salad bar," Deep Throat sighed. "Wilted lettuce, wooden tomatoes, tasteless carrots. It's all so disheartening...
...widening gap between the wealthy and the impoverished in the richest country on earth. Of course, the Lampoon meant this event to be humorous, an entertaining joke; but as long as the problems of homelessness and poverty run rampant around us, this kind of spectacle is an extremely tasteless joke...
...programming may not be as irreverent (some might say tasteless) as its promotional ads, but the Consumer News & Business Channel, a cable service that will be launched next week by NBC, is causing plenty of stir. The channel will compete directly with cable's chief business-news outlet, the Financial News Network (FNN). But some in the cable industry believe that CNBC has a much bigger rival in its sights: Ted Turner's cable news giant...
...outfit -- a red-and-gold- braid ed army jacket paired with a frilly white lace skirt -- then coquettishly pulls up her hem to reveal black knee-high jackboots. Mikhulskaya, 23, developed her theory of fashion from years of riding the Moscow metro, where she saw women wearing a tasteless hodgepodge because the state-controlled fashion industry had made it impossible for them to put together well-coordinated wardrobes. "When it comes to fashion in Moscow," she says, "a sense of humor is especially important." Her fellow designer, Katya Fillipova, 29, pokes fun at Soviet icons; her creations include a portrait...
...marketplace that seems to be operating with fewer and fewer restraints, it is ironic that advertisers have become the new guardians of quality. The trouble is: Whose definition of quality? Campaigns against "tasteless" shows usually come from the most conservative elements of American society. One pressure group, Christian Leaders for Responsible TV, is making plans to monitor TV programming this spring and to organize a boycott of major sponsors of "anti-Christian" shows. Rakolta's objections to Married . . . With Children managed to miss totally the show's satirical point. This sitcom family -- male-chauvinist husband, unliberated wife, sluttish teenage daughter...