Word: vulgarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went off. At other instances he is a Kafkaesque master of the parable. At still others he is as comic and trenchant as Saul Bellow: a pretentious artist declares, "I must create. This is a physical need with me." A writer who consents to meet with a wealthy vulgarian is enticed with promises: "In the other world, a huge portion of the leviathan and a Platonic affair with Sarah, daughter of Tovim. On this lousy planet, he's liable to sell you a condominium at half price...
...view, "the best managing editor in America." Angoff later published eleven novels about Jewish-American life, as recounted by a fictional alter ego named David Polonsky. In one of them Angoff savages a Mencken-esque "literary dictator of America," portraying him as an intellectual fraud and a loudmouthed vulgarian...
Game, set and match for Nastase in the contest of theatrics, but unfortunately for the dashing vulgarian, they were playing tennis with a ball last week in the sultry heat of Montego Bay, Jamaica. And McEnroe, once he settled down, was magnificent, defeating Nastase in three sets, his first tournament victory over the old campaigner. For his two hours of work at the World Championship Tennis Challenge Cup, McEnroe earned $10,000, raising his earnings to over $200,000 since he dropped out of Stanford University just six months ago, gave up washing his own socks and turned pro with...
...acts of love are performed by Ethel Laffey, a half-repressed voluptuary who spends a good deal of time in the percales, principally with Greeks, among them vulgarian Businessman Petros Kalkanis and Naval Officer Teddy Avaliotis, whom she marries. Among other Sunday adventures, she is assaulted by her husband's mad father Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist...
...damned glad to be Norman Lear," says Norman Lear. "I'm having a helluva good time being me." But which Norman Lear? The creator of Archie Bunker, superbigot? The real-life Udall liberal? Lear the TV assembly-line vulgarian? Or Lear the audacious idea man who zaps taboos all the way to the top of the ratings...