Word: vilely
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...zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
...this crisis of an old order affected the product enormously. Puritan scruples lost out to Puritan money, with lots of nipples and buttocks and, by 1970, pubic hair incorporated into vile and violent attempts to recapture brutalized audiences...
...worst and most misanthropic of the new films is Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song. A portrait of the Negro as the Great American Penis (the "sweet sweet-back" of the title character). it is a vile piece of ego-tripping by a black filmmaker who hopes (presumably by default) to become the "revolutionary" mass-media force of his people...
...When the initial reaction to the Calley verdict burst out, I thought for a moment that I was one of a few sane individuals in a vast mental hospital. Surely this man was responsible for his actions toward the enemy, no matter how vile the system that spawned...
...Vile rumors were spread about the four dead students. The bodies were all said to be filthy, some infected with lice. One girl was said to be pregnant, syphilitic and on hard drugs. The gossip was so widespread that the county coroner, who had examined the four, felt it necessary to deny each allegation. "These were four clean kids," he reported. Why, then, such talk? "Precisely because they were largely guiltless of any crime against society," Michener says, "they must be denigrated and torn down, because otherwise that society would have to declare itself guilty of murder...