Some feel able only to make the basic case that freedom of speech is an absolute and indivisible right, which includes the right to produce crude, crass images that are horribly offensive.
Her own opinion about the new stadium — and, perhaps, the new management — might be inferred from the prominence she gives to the naysayers ("We hate the new Yankee Stadium; the new Yankee Stadium was built for people that aren't true fans") and to crass images from an online catalog of old-stadium memorabilia ("Freeze-Dried Grass From the Original Yankee Stadium, $99.99").
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Gandhi's grandson, was quoted as calling the use of his image "crass and silly".
Moving on the two muse on Johnny Rotten's logical inconsistencies before addressing Crass's "brand image" of Crass.
Yes, the humour is crass and the images lurid, but would you expect Waters to deliver anything less?
Admittedly, he said, Russia's rich "did everything" to earn the image of crass high-spenders with scant regard for the mores of the West.
In the crazy mood of the dotcom bubble days, he tried various criminal and semi-criminal ways to make a fortune (he was convicted of computer fraud and insider trading) while simultaneously projecting the image of crass wealth seen here.
In the wake of the tragedy, with breathless reports of billions of dollars in price tags and one noted critic tweeting his mock outrage at the crass commercialism with N.S.F.W. images, the insularity and frivolity felt almost intolerable.
His ads, pilloried for the crass use of the images of a flag-draped body carried from ground zero and an Arab-looking everyman with the message, "We can fight against terrorists," actually have a more fundamental problem.
