The World Series was crummy, but remember the Olympics?
The Cathar faith stemmed from the same paradox that fuels every dualistic gnostic "heresy," to wit: if God is so good, how come the world is so crummy?
The fact is though, that Miles had a point: There's a lot of crummy Merlot bottled in the world, wines made from overcropped grapes, planted in the wrong places, and highly processed to make them shelf stable, attractive to the eye, and as middle-of-the-road as 21st century technology can manage.
What a crummy prison of ideas, the fashion world can be.
They moved around in Upton's rooms and crummy garden like refugees from a larger world they struggled to recall.
"It was just a deserted old second world war training airport in a crummy little desert town.
(I even liked "Short Cuts," the film Robert Altman made from Carver's work. Altman captured Carver's mood of crummy, slipshod marginality and cleverly relocated it to Los Angeles, the world capital of crumminess).
"Symbolically, it says that city athletes deserve a world-class facility, instead of a disgusting falling-apart track with crummy portable bathrooms and no place to change in".
Overload would be random (of course, iPhone calls drop randomly, too), but a plainly crummy system is one that can't cover some of the most well-trafficked thoroughfares and intersections in the world.
