Word: vulgarism
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...Vulgar and spam-brained as they may be, Beavis and Butt-head need no spin doctors--they were born to win the world over all on their own. The crudely drawn pubescents were first unleashed on the public in a 1992 focus group session MTV held in Teaneck, New Jersey, during which the audience was given a peek at Frog Baseball, a short film by a then 30-year-old novice animator named Mike Judge. The group's response to the film, in which the boys take turns whacking a bat at a harmless amphibian, went way beyond...
...some fundamental dimension of the G.O.P. message? And if it was the message, which part? Did Dole move too far to the center or not far enough? Should he have stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns in the way that suits it best. But when...
Small is beautiful. The presidency is a big thing. But in the era of downsized government, little things are fertile terrain for a feel-your-pain incumbent. And what bigger pain than raising a teenager in a vulgar world--thus, the V-chip, school uniforms and curfews. Compassion legislation: it feels so good, and it's oh so cheap...
...individual incompleteness, ignorance and mutual dependence? The ideal of diversity hates homogeneity and loves heterogeneity, and so disdains the one or the few in order to embrace the many. The diverse university and the diverse curriculum are therefore democratic. But liberal education is anti-democratic, shunning what is vulgar and variegated in order to perfect the few best souls through intense study of the few great books. This presents the problem we must be true-hearted enough to face...
CALVIN and KELLY KLEIN remained true to their design ideals even when dissolving their nine-year marriage: simple, stylish, nothing vulgar. The most puzzled-over and envied couple of their industry didn't even curtail their social schedule. They co-hosted a party and afterward broke the news to gossip diva Liz Smith. Nobody is saying whether the rift was caused by the pressure of being married to a man so famous his name is synonymous with underpants, or whether the oft-repeated suggestion that the marriage was a sham is true. "They intend to make every effort to work...