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  • But it's hard to imagine anything surpassing the jaw-dropping tone-deafness of CBS' cringe-com Rob premiering tonight at 8:31/7:31c, a culture-clash calamity that's about as funny as the Mexican-American War, though hardly as subtle.

    Thursday TV in Review: Rotten Rob, Finder, Person of Interest and More 2012

  • Other non-fiction subjects include Jaffa oranges and the Palestinian women's football team, while culture-clash drama Amreeka warmly tracks a Palestinian mother's move to the US.Various venues, Thu to 10 Dec, bristolpff.org.uk

    This week's new film events 2011

  • My Fall Preview take: "The culture-clash premise drowns in a sewer of offensive caricatures and lame jokes."

    The New Thursday in Review: Stick with the Old 2010

  • The 1992 film Immaculate Conception by Jamil Dehlavi is based upon the culture-clash between a western couple seeking fertility at a Karachi shrine known to be blessed by a sufi-fakir called Gulab Shah and the group of Pakistani eunuchs who guard it.

    The Hijras « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • It also lets the writers indulge in near-countless culture-clash jokes and situations, from the hideous clothes and hair to changing social attitudes.

    'Mars' gets off to stellar but not alien start 2008

  • This is at times funny, at times poignant culture-clash and technology-clash adventure.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Angel Rising - Dirk Flinthart Blue Tyson 2009

  • Senior CIA operations officials Steve Kappes and Mike Sulick, along with Graham, all quit over Murray†™ s heavy-handedness; many viewed the incident as an example of culture-clash and power struggle within the agency, nothing more or less.

    Think Progress » Goss denies that he partied with Wilkes. 2006

  • His demeanor also appeared to reflect some culture-clash discomfort, the awkwardness Leon Redbone might feel sharing the stage with Moby.

    Classicists vs. Bar Chefs 2008

  • But to Ms horror, his conservative mom and dad insist on flying from Taiwan to New York to attend the wedding -- and thus begins a very sweet, funny and acutely observed culture-clash comedy.

    Straightening Up The House 2008

  • This culture-clash comedy is about parenting; Latin and Anglo notions of masculinity, femininity and family; the lure and perils of assimilation, as well as the dangers of getting a four-star restaurant review in The New York Times.

    SPANGLISH: LANGUAGE OF LOVE 2007

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