Word: vileness
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...writer was equally eye-catching: a tall, pale, boyish figure whose trademark was a gleaming white suit. He looked like a collegian out of Held's Angels, or a swell in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. Raised in Richmond, Va., Wolfe spoke softly and courteously, exuding an air of the right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment...
Roldós avoided ruffling Ecuador's armed forces, proclaiming that he held them in "great respect." But he also decried the "vile assassination" of Abnón Calderón Muñoz, leader of the gadfly Radical Front Party, who was shot last fall in Roldós' home town of Quayaquil. Calderón's family has brought suit charging that ex-Interior Minister Bolivar Jarrin Cahueñas was involved in the killing...
...midnight showing at the Welles, Pink Flamingoes. Can you hold you liquor? How unshakable is your friendship? Because this movie and its transvestite hero(ine) Divine aim to reverse your digestive process, and may well succeed. Or perhaps you too consider life reducible to the most blatantly vile, the most howlingly revolting possible common denominator...
...these handsome new editions reconfirm Edmund Wilson's 1944 judgment that Waugh "is likely to figure as the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Characters like Lady Margot Metroland, Mayfair hostess and procuress of Decline and Fall, Mrs. Melrose Ape of Vile Bodies, the American evangelist modeled on Aimee Semple McPherson, Basil Seal, highborn wastrel of Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags, and Lord Copper, publisher of the Beast in Scoop, still delight because there are always new grotesques to fill the shoes of Waugh's caricatures. And his work...
According to tradition, the newlyweds sneak away at midnight, but the dancing and partying continues unabated. Finally at about 7 a.m. all the young people pay a visit to the new home of the Bride and groom, bursting into their bedroom and making them drink a vile concoction of hot chocolate, champagne, wedding cake, and toilet paper, all neatly contained in a chamber...