Two years after Goat Girl formed, the name has proven a fitting moniker for the lo-fi quartet, whose droll, searing self-titled debut straddles the line between provocative crassness and mocking crassness.
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It's important to note that ZONZO isn't just mindless crassness.
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"I almost cried to think about the crassness of that, the hypocrisy," Dobbs said.
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Lyubov and her brother, Gayev (Igor Chernevich), are appalled by the crassness of the scheme.
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The Chainsmokers can't, and the crassness of their Memories… Do Not Open represents a nadir.
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It's about the kinds of overt insults and crassness that polite society normally doesn't tolerate.
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Quantity does of course have a quality all its own, but it is a quality of crassness.
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It subjected her all her life to accusations of crassness, of lack of caring, and of simplemindedness.
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Be honest and jokingly tease your pals, but make sure your crassness doesn't veer into hurtful territory.
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Thanks to their bad press, their name has also become synonymous with crassness, ignorance and hostility to culture.
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Mr. Trump's posturing, his crassness, his rudeness, his simplistic descriptions of international issues, his demeanor — we see it all.
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But the gold rush by some of the refugees from Trumplandia has a quickness and crassness all its own.
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Trump was an emblem of what was going on in the '80s and '90s with greed and money and crassness.
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Trump degrades it all with his crassness, his obscene language, his fear-mongering and his inability to offer soaring rhetoric.
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This presidential election cycle, for all its crassness, has been spared the drama of some new revelation of consensual, extramarital sex.
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The shoehorned-in progressive messages only call more attention to the inherent crassness of Disney's current exercise in money-grabbing nostalgia.
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Many are friends of mine; they speak to me of his crassness which, they say, is an affront to the presidency.
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But, even by the Trump administration's blown-out standards, this week was a wild swing between the poles of comity and crassness.
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Trying to shame voters by calling out a politician's crassness or pugnaciousness is not just a useless tactic, but could potentially backfire.
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The whole point of a middle finger is to be rude and rageful, so Trump's crassness is exactly what his supporters crave.
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Her too little, too late apology simply said she went "too far" rather than understanding the underlying crassness and danger her precedent sets.
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Unlike other Duterte supporters, Mr. Romulo wasn't taken with his crassness — the upturned middle fingers, the rape jokes, the threat of extrajudicial killings.
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In this administration, crassness has become a weapon, annihilating social codes that once restrained political behavior, signaling that old standards no longer apply.
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In the crassness of the writing, it has often been argued, there is actually a critique of the desiccated landscape of human relationships.
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By republishing his tweets, you cast us all in the role of powerless peasants standing with our mouths agape, stunned by his cruelty, crassness and craziness.
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As with that venerable show, which begins its 20th season on Wednesday, the crassness on "Legends" is coupled with barbed jokes that double as social commentary.
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When I asked him how my father had died, he shook his head in disapproval — not of my father, but of the crassness of my question.
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But it's a sweet thought and not entirely out of keeping with a movie that for all its crassness, comic and commercial, is basically good-spirited.
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"Maybe he reflects more of us today ... this nastiness and the crassness that you see in politics maybe were more reflective of our society," Daley told Axelrod.
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The crassness of his insults may well be muted as he tries to win over at least some of the voters, particularly women, who now abhor him.
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But the series, created by Scot Armstrong, invests an awful lot in the comedic value of crassness, and the result is only a 50-50 success rate.
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Simultaneously gratified and burdened by commercial success while trying to hang onto his soul, Sheeran's dilemma illustrates a pop truism: authenticity moves are crasser than actual crassness.
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Yet the joke is seeing Sunny one-up Willie in terms of crassness, inappropriateness, and drinking; clearly Willie comes by his existence honestly, if you can say that.
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In its bipartisanship and dignity, the funeral (like John McCain's funeral before it) was widely read in the press as a rebuke of Trump's crassness and outlandish behavior.
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As usual, the crassness of Hollywood—er, sorry, Hollywoo—is the main object of the show's friendly ribbing, but this time it also tackles the superficiality of politics.
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The sheer crassness led to instant condemnation on social media, including speculation about what might be next — maybe trotting out James Baldwin to hawk "The Firestone Next Time"?
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"Game of Thrones" has nothing on 2017 Afghanistan when it comes to violence in politics and crassness in war, not to mention plots almost too complex to follow.
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Critics complained about its crassness and cruelty, but Mr. Barris, like purveyors of burlesque and circus sideshows in earlier generations, knew there was a large audience for lowbrow.
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"Yet Jon Hartmere's script has genuinely funny moments and is blessedly short on crassness: even a scene involving catheters and colon hygiene is less cringey than you might expect."
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Yet Jon Hartmere's script has genuinely funny moments and is blessedly short on crassness: even a scene involving catheters and colon hygiene is less cringey than you might expect.
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But the network wasn't just changing its evening programming: It was becoming a lifeline for the Trump presidency, an incubator for defenses of his policies, his crassness, and his corruption.
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They're aiming to bridge different listening contexts — lounge easy-listening, late-night dance clubs, megafestivals, all at once, and their coded genre mashups are supposed to mix sophistication and crassness.
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Matthew Dowd, for example, the chief strategist of the Bush campaign that year, has reinvented himself as a mournful, saintly independent, calling out the crassness and degeneracy of contemporary politics.
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Unlike many of DC Entertainment's superheroes (think: Wonder Woman) and supervillains (think: Phoenix's Joker), there's an edge of camp and crassness to Quinn— oftentimes cartoonish humor undercuts her violence and horror.
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Characters switch inexplicably from Hindi to English and back again, sometimes in the same conversation, the screenplay never missing an opportunity to contrast the high-mindedness of its heroine with the crassness of her oppressors.
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The crassness of the dealings documented in the Mueller indictments reflects a political culture in which foreign countries, as well as Americans, routinely pay millions to influence politicians, whether through lobbying firms or PAC s.
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Trump didn't exude competence and fatherliness so much as he exuded wealth, power, a kind of crassness that can feel like honesty, and most of all, rage at those who had made America not great anymore.
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This is the fatal mistake of conservatives who've decided the best way to deal with Trump's personality — the lying, narcissism, bullying, bigotry, crassness, name calling, ignorance, paranoia, incompetence and pettiness — is to pretend it doesn't matter.
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Despite the crassness of his manifestoes, Mr. Yee has drawn the attention of the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, who has repeatedly criticized the Singaporean government for its treatment of Mr. Yee.
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That film exuded bloody physicality, crassness, and intensity in its gripping study of a toxic relationship between an aspiring jazz drummer and his cruel instructor—qualities that would have no place in Chazelle's beautiful, melancholic follow-up.
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When she wonders into his room of clocks and reveals the very personal reason she's in the FBI (note that she played the pronoun game with her partner while divulging her story), her crassness seems to charm him.
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There's a plot, of sorts, but mostly, it's a chance for the man behind Beavis and Butt-head and Silicon Valley to crack cynical, despairing, and routinely hilarious gags about America's increasingly aggressive commercialism, crassness, and self-absorption.
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Though most of the special is full of the trademark Morgan crassness that made him a fan-favorite on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, his hour-long routine is also full of personal stories about his long recovery.
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Whether his conduct amounts to fraud will likely turn on the opaque phrasing of e-mails and the doubtful credulity of an oligarch, but the damage to the art market lies in Bouvier's effrontery, the crassness of his gains.
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Many observers have remarked over the past several weeks on the extraordinary crassness of this calculus that it's okay for the Saudis to murder a US resident who is a father to US citizens because the Saudis give us money.
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They might be forgiven for worrying that we will fall prey to the same ill-confidence in our electoral process, the same crassness in our public discourse, and the same distrust in our public institutions that Russia's attacks have heretofore engendered.
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Above all, through his intelligence and civility, his culture and his openness, Macron has erected a much-needed barrier to the crassness and incivility, the ignorance and the closed-mindedness that seeps from Trump's Oval Office and threatens to corrupt the conduct of world affairs.
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We in the creative community, for our part, suddenly find ourselves living in a nation personified by a man of staggering crassness, who in the pursuit of power has thoroughly polluted the all-but-lost ideal of an informed electorate, trafficking in the crudest of stereotypes, epithets and presumptions.
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Awkwafina is the id monster of this movie in the same way that McCarthy and Haddish were the id monsters of their respective breakouts, and it's the over-the-top new money crassness of her character Peik Lin that allows Constance Wu's Americanized Rachel Chu to feel comparatively well-behaved.
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All along the fertile interstate-highway corridor, our corporations, those new and powerful nation-states, had set up shop parasitically, so as to skim off the drive-past money, and what those outposts had to offer was a blur of sugar, bright color, and crassness that seemed causally related to more serious addictions.
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If Trump, as Ann Coulter so "respectfully" suggested, does raze the garden to hold a backyard putting green — an act we really can't put past a man who loves a good, wind turbine-free golf course — the gesture would be incredibly representative of the presidential handover: a huge leap from class to utter crassness.
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In the crassness of the writing, it has often been argued, there is actually a critique, an understanding—reinforced by frequent narratorial asides as well as writerly exegeses in interviews and essays—that this desiccated landscape of human relationships is what one gets when the 1960s assault on heterosexual monogamy arrives, through the wasteland of the 1980s, at the internet-driven, globalized, and consumerist approach to life of recent decades.
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" If this is America, our America of government for the people, by the people, and you cannot believe how low the Great Leader will stoop, how much lower he will go than seemed possible, and sometimes you feel the need to wash the ambient crassness and vulgarity from your skin, for they seep into you whatever protection you may wear, and you are aghast at how the G.O.P. has morphed into palace courtiers outdoing each other in praise of their plutocratic reality-show prince, then it is time to ponder the poet's words: "If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; if you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.
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He described it as "zestfully tasteless" with a uniquely American vulgarity, crassness and manic energy. Attansio appreciated that the film had irreverent humor that was not mean spirited. He described that the film succeeds by having an emotional core that keeps the audiences' interest among the laughter. Reviewers agreed that the exposition heavy opening leads into a better half.
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But within the stories, strumph was a viewed as overweening crassness and boorishness. A player might be able to militarily defeat another, but to do it with a lack of style would be "strumphish". Use of bureaucracy for the simple purpose of bludgeoning someone with power would be sure to give the offending player the undesirable label of "strumph-mad".
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Henri waits in agony for her return, but when she finally does he tells her to leave at once. Realizing he loves her, Marie vows to stay and love him back. Though she continues to fight with him, he tells himself her crassness stems from her poverty, and lets her stay. During one fight Marie tells Henri he can never attract a real woman, and leaves.
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Luca gestures to the "Man wanted" sign, and Dino invites Luca to his office to discuss the matter. During this time, Dino shows his crassness and lack of respect for Lana by pinching her bottom and groping her in public. He seems to regard her more as a chattel than as his wife. While Dino and Luca converse in Dino's office, Rita and Angelo finally meet and express affection for each other.
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Honey Singh is an Indian rapper whose work has been perceived as being vulgar, misogynist, promoting violence against women and a bad influence on youth. There have been reactions in prose to Singh, such as from Annie Zaidi, who wrote her own "An Open Letter to Honey Singh" in January 2013, and Sandipan Sharma, who wrote "Thanks for the crassness: An open letter to Honey Singh from a parent" in July 2014.
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The film explores the cultural distance between Australian popular culture and the manners and mores of England, both nations presented in hyperbolically satirical manner. Barry is the extreme embodiment of "Ockerism" of the late fifties and mid-sixties Australia. Swearing, excessive drinking, vomiting, rowdiness and other crassness is glorified. The film also plays with the ideas of the era where the sixties cultural revolution had swept aside the "certainties" of classical education.
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However, some commentators also point out the crassness was intentional, and an element of the parody - among these is David Hawkes, professor of English, who cites Heil Honey, I'm Home! as a "heavy- handed concept", and argues that the show was a failure as a comedy because it "disastrously exceeded" the limits of irony.David Hawkes, "British Contemporary Comedy", in Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, edited by Maurice Charney. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005 (p. 197).
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At first outraged at the man's crassness, Bibbo feels some sympathy for his losses and buys his entire inventory in order to get him off the street, then offers him a job at the Ace O' Clubs.Superman: The Man of Steel #20 (February 1993) While Superman is gone, Bibbo takes to putting on a 'disguise' of sorts and helping out on the streets. Around this time he saves a man from suicide.
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He wrote occasional and acerbic essays on music for various magazines. He was dismissive of much modern popular music, including rock and roll. It was said of him that "he was completely dedicated to his strong belief in how jazz should sound", and was described as "a man of uncompromised integrity in both his musical and personal life [who] hated insincerity and crassness", and who had a "mercurial temperament".Kenny Graham biography, Jazz Professional.
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" Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded a full four stars out of four and wrote that "violence takes a back seat to character development and storytelling techniques that are classical. 'Hustle' is the kind of picture you don't want to see end. It's going to be a cult favorite." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "Because of some over- contrivances in plot, excess crassness and distended length, 'Hustle' misses being the excellent contemporary Bogart–Chandler–Hawks–Warner Bros.
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He returns to Bangkok on November 23, at a time when relations with Japan are deteriorating, and is unpleasantly affected by the crassness and ugliness of the Japanese tourists at his hotel. A last visit to see Ying Chan at the Chakri Palace goes disastrously, when the translator lets slip that Honda is leaving for Japan without her, and Ying Chan throws a tantrum. Almost immediately after he returns to Japan, war is declared with the United States. The atmosphere is almost festive.
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Nathaniel Peffer likewise denounced the book as "a rehash of all the old patter of the outport hotel lobbies, with all its half-truths, inaccuracies, provincialism, ignorance and sometimes crassness... [Townsend] has not managed to observe accurately the most simple and superficial things."Nathaniel Peffer, "Book Review," Books, 3 December 1933, 36. JOP Bland, though deeming Townsend's conclusions "as a whole... unconvincing", at least found the chapter on opium "particularly instructive."John Otway Percy Bland, "Ways That Are Dark," The Times Literary Supplement, 2 August 1934, 534.
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The English defeat was partly put down to a lack of gunpowder, but there was no attempt to excuse the crassness and ineptitude of the governor's conduct. Despite the size of the force he had chosen to bring to a mere parley, MacDonnell had little difficulty in justifying his own conduct. There was some irony in the Scots' victory, because MacDonnell's father, Sorley Boy, had sacked the town over twenty years before in revenge for the English massacre of clan dependents on Rathlin Island.
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His work has been perceived as being vulgar, misogynist, promoting violence against women and a bad influence on youth. There have been reactions in print to Singh, such as from Annie Zaidi, who wrote "An Open Letter to Honey Singh" in January 2013, and Sandipan Sharma, who wrote "Thanks for the crassness: An open letter to Honey Singh from a parent" in July 2014. On 2014, he and singer Raftaar were in dispute over whether Raftaar should receive credit for the lyrics of the song "Yeh Fugly Fugly Kya Hai".
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Dulska in Court and by the 1909 satirical journal published in Krakow, Mrs. Dulska. As Polish stage writer Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński noted in 1932, she came to represent "a whole epoch". A new term arose in the Polish language: 'dulszczyna', which roughly translates to "Dulska-ness" and functions as "a catch-all for the litany of reprehensible qualities exhibited by bourgeois philistine Aniela Dulska: double standards, endemic conservatism, excessive self-delusion, poor social conscience, weakness of character, hypocrisy, xenophobia, penny-pinching, vanity, pomposity, crassness, lack of compassion, sadistic self-aggrandizement, and bad taste", as notes translator Teresa Murjas.
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Raymond Gunt's journey begins in London, where in a meeting with his ex-wife, Fiona, she offers Raymond a job as a B-Unit cameraman on a reality TV show titled Survival. While preparing to leave for this journey, he befriends and hires a homeless man named Neal as an assistant, and prepares himself to deal with a British/American culture clash. From this point in the novel, Raymond Gunt's journey is one of offense, crassness, and shock. He travels to Hawaii, then to Los Angeles, with each moment of his journey being rife with strife, mostly of his own creation.
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Life was luxurious and full of joy but destiny decides doom for Falak when Salman falls in love with an uneducated an crass employee Tabinda at his factory with whom he begins an extramarital relationship. Falak decides to meet Tabinda and confront her. Upon seeing her unattractive physical appearance and crassness, she goes in a state of shock and eventually suffers from a major nervous breakdown. She comes back to consciousness with a broken heart and for the first time in life looks at her tragedy from a different perspective. Instead of craving for Salman’s lost love she ponders over the power of destiny.
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The novel received generally favourable critical reviews in the mainstream UK press, with some exceptions. The Sunday Times said that: "Warner not only satirises the crassness of contemporary life but underlines the inequities of social class... the way that this middle-aged man manages to inhabit a gang of girls with such gusto and conviction is one of the small miracles of contemporary fiction." The Independent opined that "Warner navigates the comic, the philosophical and the socially acute like no other writer we have". The Observer said that the plot was compelling: "as the women reacquaint themselves with each other, the reader is rapidly drawn into their lives and the complex web of their relationships through their vivid conversation".
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George is less keen but is persuaded to apply for adoption. His crassness and the Ropers' age means that the adoption agency turns them down, but instead, George buys Mildred a Yorkshire Terrier called Truffles (Mildred later registers her with the kennel club as "Truffles duBorbon Fitzwilliam III"). When the Fourmiles go on holiday to Scotland, Mildred is given the key to their house so she can water their plants, but George abuses this by going in to watch the couple's superior colour television. Mildred has asked George to decorate their lounge but George calls in professionals - who follow him into the Fourmiles' house, wrongly assuming that this is where the re-decoration is needed.
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Earl Camembert was the son of a former SCTV station manager, Merle Camembert (also played by Levy), who had a reputation for buckling under to the slightest pressure, as during an early 1950s McCarthyist hearing when he "named names" of alleged Communists, including his own mother (and Earl's grandmother). Camembert also has one son, Earl Junior, (played by the real-life son of Joe Flaherty), who tried to fill in for Camembert in one episode due to Robertson's tardiness. Typical of Robertson's crassness, upon returning to the studio, he bullied the younger Camembert, who looked identical to his father. Levy's portrayal of Camembert made him a sympathetic figure in light of Robertson's success and his mistreatment of Camembert.
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The film received mixed reviews from critics, despite coming in first at the box office. Most of the criticism was directed at its "non- existent" plot, stale humor and poor use of the shopping mall setting. Oggs Cruz of Rappler lamented what he saw as a wasted opportunity, stating it is "more of the same – and messier" and "while the settings change or the genre it spoofs shift, the elements remain the same. The comedies are all anchored on mean-spirited hilarity, all utilizing a broad moral lesson to make its abject crassness palatable to the families it caters to," comparing it unfavorably to George Romero's seminal zombie film Dawn of the Dead whose department store setting was used to satirize consumerism.
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David Thomson called her body of work "insubstantial" and Pauline Kael wrote that she could not act, but rather "used her lack of an actress's skills to amuse the public. She had the wit or crassness or desperation to turn cheesecake into acting—and vice versa; she did what others had the 'good taste' not to do". In contrast, Peter Bradshaw wrote that Monroe was a talented comedian who "understood how comedy achieved its effects", and Roger Ebert wrote that "Monroe's eccentricities and neuroses on sets became notorious, but studios put up with her long after any other actress would have been blackballed because what they got back on the screen was magical". Similarly, Jonathan Rosenbaum stated that "she subtly subverted the sexist content of her material" and that "the difficulty some people have discerning Monroe's intelligence as an actress seems rooted in the ideology of a repressive era, when superfeminine women weren't supposed to be smart".
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Maxine has been noted as "a transgender character, overcame massive boundaries to become one of the strongest and most likable characters." by Metro. A writer on AfterEllen, compared Maxine to Sophia Burset, the transgender character on Orange Is The New Black played by Laverne Cox. The writer said "The wig thing makes sense, I guess, if she has been off her hormones for a while, but that issue is never addressed. Every single scene with Maxine is about her difference, her otherness. And I’m actually fine with the rest of the characters saying shitty things to her that reduce her to her anatomy–they’re not the most enlightened people ever—but the camera seems to treat her with the same crassness as the inmates." Gay Times said about Maxine "She’s one of the reasons our eyes are so fixated to the dramatic happenings of season three and we love it." when talking about the character before interviewing Socratis Otto about his time in Wentworth Prison.
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