Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women have been called drabs, slommacks, traipses, malkins, draggletails, blowens, bawdy baskets and bobtails. As for the act of sex, Greer likes the obsolete word swive because it has no vulgar linguistic emphasis on "the poking element...
...Maddocks sounds like the Miss Fidditch of the 1600s who was constantly admonishing her school charges not to use that "vulgar" word you, but rather the "correct" thee, thou, thy and thine. Languages have always changed, such change is neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy," and neither the admonitions of a Miss Fidditch nor a Melvin Maddocks will do very much to affect our use of that magnificent and mysterious thing we call language...
When Lerner decides to be original, his changes are always vulgar, simplistic, or downright perverse. The killing of Quilty doesn't take place in an eerie, Poe-like mansion, but at a party in Arizona in front of Quilty's freaky set of disciples, thus giving Lerner a chance for a rousing song-and-dance opening. The Enchanted Hunters Motel where Lolita seduces Humbert is changed to the Bed-D-Bv Motel, full of whores and Mr. and Mrs. John Smiths. And Lerner perversely places Humbert's final visit with the married, pregnant Lolita at the very end, enabling...
...been to Los Angles in the past few years, you may have noticed that the last Great American Dream Machine, Hollywood, has fallen into disuse and disrepair. Many of the big film lots have closed, studios are auctioning off their sets and costumes, the large vulgar marquees of the glamorous film palaces have been dismantled. And so it goes. But, like every other legend the West has given us, the peculiar and fascinating mythos of the movie capital will live on-in books, in songs, and, of course, in the movies themselves...
...film is shot in gaudy studio sets, colored with vulgar purples and red-oranges. It is peopled with studio bosses, agents, wardrobe women, and sycophants. The action unfolds in Hollywood mansions, Sunset Strip restaurants, film studios and tacky hotels with flashing neon signs, concluding with a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. To satisfy the Nathaniel West fans, Aldrich has also thrown in a perverse and crippled gossip columnist (Coral Browne), a lusty Mexican, and a heroin-addicted lesbian...