Word: vulgared
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...should go to Nevada to one of the houses they have there," meaning Nevada's legal brothels. Such extravagant abuse apparently has caused many voters, who admired Jarvis as engagingly feisty two years ago, to write him off now as a vulgar demagogue...
...case of one generation speaking to another. I am a product of the "new lingo" generation, and I admit I often find myself flinching inside while maintaining a deadpan expression. However, what really catches me off guard is when someone older than I tosses around what are considered vulgar words and expressions in my presence. I have been running into this in job interviews recently...
Though Scheider is a wry, sensitive actor, he soon gets lost in the vulgar theatrics. So does the subject of death. When Fosse attempts to put his heart on the table, he does so too literally. All That Jazz contains close-ups of open-heart sur gery, but few insights into Gideon's soul. What Fosse regards as self-analysis often comes out as egomaniacal self-congratulation: there's even a scene where Gideon cries at his own funeral. Still, Fosse is no fool, and at times he is his own best critic. All That Jazz is never...
...live in Los Angeles, they have rented a loft in Manhattan for their trips East. Calm and low-key, Riegert seems to be the grounding for Bette's electric charge, her steadying influence. On stage, says Midler, she is "a character without fear, who has no problem being vulgar or outrageous. But in my private life, I'm one of the most paranoid per sons in the world...
...tales sometimes seem melodramatic, too filled with coincidence or emotional trauma, well, so is the world they reflect. To Isaac Bashevis Singer, that arena is yet another story, a narrative he calls "God's novel." Its plot, he says, may be "inconsistent, sensational, antisocial, cryptic, decadent, vulgar." But, he admits, it "has suspense. One keeps reading it day and night." God knows, one could say the same of Singer's work. -Stefan Kanfer