Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radicalism was a vulgar radicalism," he continues. "We might have done better if we had played some of the bureaucratic games. It's a question of style as well as politics...
...from the audience -members of Congress, presidential aides and representatives from the diplomatic corps (the Supreme Court Justices decided that their presence would be improper and declined to attend). It was an oddly exuberant happening, considering its origin in Agnew's tragedy, and some Republicans considered the performance vulgar. Said Oregon Governor Tom McCall: "It looked like a hoedown, a shivaree." In the Blue Room after the announcement, while guests bear-hugged Jerry and kissed Betty Ford, Nixon chatted enthusiastically with those in the receiving line...
Heavy Traffic. This is the new X-rated animated cartoon by Ralph Bakshi, the maker of the celebrated Fritz the Cat. It is usually vulgar, sometimes disgusting, and guaranteed to offend you in one way or another -- either through its occasional perversions or its ethnic stereotypes. But Heavy Traffic is good. Bakshi has discovered freedom in the cartoon form, and this is a film of poignancy and some depth. Cheri...
...since childhood, and his paintings, when weak, rarely permit one to forget the atmosphere of lantern-lit masquerade in which his father, the profusely talented illustrator N.C. Wyeth, reveled. When swashbuckling or fantasticated, as in much of his work before the 1960s, that theatricality could make Wyeth seem as vulgar as Thomas Hart Benton-though much subtler in design and drawing...
...choice of targets is virtually limitless--the other pre-meds who will deliberately tell you wrong information so you'll flunk an exam, the aesthetes who think talking politics is well, you know old boy, just a mite vulgar, the rock climbers and flower children who have experienced it all and the mindless future technocrats who actually care whether Scoop Jackson of Hubert Humphrey runs for president in '76. And this even without the war criminals and apologists--after all, Henry Kissinger was a Harvard...