Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia is a healthy rehabilitation of national symbols, a growing out of adolescent shame and embarrassment about "home" and a gradual realization that what is commonly thought of as uncultured, vulgar (i.e., new and unEuropean) is exactly what is unique about America...
...ocean. He uses a combination of schematic and symbolic lines, actual color photographs, and a shimmering plastic called Rowlux, that in any other context--the plastic body of a comb or a brush, a drug-store display, a hair-salon wall--would be called vulgar. But here it is uncanny in its hypnotic approximation of nature...
...desire to demonstrate that black street styles are not stereotypes at all but put-ons. Such disguises can-sometimes-help individuals to get at least some of what they want with out permitting a hostile world to know that they are trying. Bakshi's sensibility is too vulgar for such an exercise. With a newspaper storm breaking around him, he has been reduced to protesting that "I love black people, I love the guys I grew up with" (in Brooklyn's Brownsville section in the '50s, when it was becoming a black ghetto). One is inclined...
...hard to understand why anyone would bother to make Smile at all-let alone with loving, modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring out the worst in everyone: sponsors, contestants, audiences. This is not exactly big news. If it were, Bert Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining...
...E.D.T.). The network does not merely admit that the series is based on Upstairs, Downstairs; it is positively insistent on the point. That is a sensible policy, since it is doubtful if the uninstructed viewer could perceive any connection between the engaging PBS bundle from Britain and its vulgar American cousin...