I can remember the fuss it caused when it was first shown, the sense it was cutting-edge TV unpeeling the distasteful reality of contemporary politics.
The illicit sex trade surrounding the school, at the corner of East Tremont and Bryant Avenues, has been a distasteful reality for years, according to teachers and parents who express both frustration and resignation at a problem that the police say they cannot fully stamp out.
But behind the mouth-watering offerings lies a distasteful reality: billions of dollars' worth of food is dumped each year because of retailers' inefficiency.It is difficult to gauge quite how much waste known as "shrink" in the industry's jargon there is.
Skyrocketing unemployment rates, economic hardship, terrorism, extremely partisan politics, distasteful reality shows and dire forecasts for the country can leave anyone with a "bah humbug" taste in their mouths this holiday season.
"Iceland must have faced the cold reality that however distasteful they found borrowing from the I.M.F., it was preferable to borrowing from Russia," said Mr. Rogoff, also a former chief economist at the fund.
But sometimes I find reality stuff a bit distasteful.
The mystical reality is this: All sin is distasteful to G-d and against His will.
But as distasteful as it may be, it is the strange reality that exists for universities like Rutgers, my alma mater.
I find it very distasteful, but I have to accept there's some reality to this: In the era of HMOs, where saving money [is] a predominant thought, you could see incentives created to treat people with terminal illnesses by assisting them in committing suicide.
But nothing so far has managed to capture the most gruesomely distasteful aspects of the city's aimless capitalism quite like "Miami Social" (beginning on Tuesday), the newest reality series from Bravo, the cable channel that is subversively summoning Americans to proletarian revolt.
