And the Germans have been shocked by the crudity of Poland's anti-flood measures.

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Human nature, in all its splendor, crudity and cruelty, is on stark display, including the real but barely imaginable ways by which certain types of people dispose of their enemies.

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The other, a hapless piece of pseudo-mythology called "Clash of the Titans, " was shot in two dimensions, then hastily bumped up by computer finaglings of such crudity as to establish the principle, or so we thought, that 3-D conversions were to be avoided at all box-office costs.

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