Word: vulgared
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Publisher Flynt, who claims a 1.5 million circulation for his monumentally vulgar magazine ("We're looking to turn the reader on, not respond to some sexual fantasy"), is charged with offering the services of a prostitute to one of the city's vice-squad members. Flynt runs three Hustler Clubs in Ohio, tacky rip-offs of the Playboy Clubs, offering expensive drinks and leggy "hostesses." His Cincinnati dive has been in and out of trouble with the police and the state's liquor-control commission for several years...
That genius of the vulgar, Harry Cohn, always refused to permit movies about the American Revolution to be made on his Columbia Pictures lot. He believed that men in knee breeches and powdered wigs, spouting the stilted locutions of the 18th century, looked and sounded too silly for audiences to take seriously...
TOMMY. Ken Russell has taken The Who's rock opera and used it as the basis for an outrageously funny and vulgar assault on the excesses of pop culture...
...otherwise normal adults spend long hours trying to squeeze a few more dishonorable dollars out of a grant program to funnel into pet projects; academic wives, a generally bright and attractive strain of the breed, engage in childish games of status and snubbing that would move even the most vulgar and climbing Washington hostess to disgust. For one who accepted a semester at Harvard as a kind of reverse sabbatical--an academic retreat from the pettier aspects of politics--it is all rather...
...shocked and dismayed at the blatantly commercial tone of your holiday supplement. The focus on expensive gifts, expensive ski vacations, and expensive resorts was not only vulgar but also out of keeping with your usually astute social perspectives. I was quite disappointed to see the bylines of some of your better writers attached to such "sell-out" articles...