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Word: vulgarisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sexual modesty fostered not only a more civil society but also a sexier world. A glimpse of a knee, the graze of a shoulder sent shivers. Delicious! But now women are encouraged to be like men, and what a mess it is. The refined has been replaced by the vulgar, and sex has become just the thing you do on the third date. Is it surprising that girls lack self-esteem, that sexual harassment abounds, that men act like boys and women ultimately sit home alone? If only we could go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modestly Provocative | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Heston, a former Time-Warner shareholder, was outraged by the lyrics "celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers," and attended the annual stockholders' meeting to "simply read the full lyrics of 'Cop Killer,' every vicious, vulgar, instructional word...

Author: By Richard J. Wegener, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Heston Lays Down Commandments at Law School | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Sitting in his office in Los Angeles, Nash, 51, and his three producers, including his daughter Robyn, 30, view extraordinarily violent and vulgar tapes. (Against all odds, shockumentaries can bring families together.) In one particularly gripping tape, a Brazilian crowd flees a fireworks display gone haywire. "That's amazing," Nash says. "Do we know if anyone got hurt?" NBC, like Fox, the network Nash usually works with, is squeamish about showing major injuries. The Brazilian scene is accepted, not only because it passes the no-maiming criterion but also because it--as Nash explains it--"tells a story." A tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...exploits of a partially mechanized creature. As you might guess, given the B-movie setup, not all of the album makes sense, but RZA does create an atmosphere of sci-fi menace and scatological humor. The music is propelled by elastic rhythms and scattershot rapping. Several tracks are vulgar and misogynistic, but RZA tries to show his softer side with a hiccuping hip-hop cover of the soul song Love Jones. This is a fine album. Romance never seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bobby Digital In Stereo | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...slanting "poles" in his last great canvas, Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952. The two pictures have something else in common: they remind you how Pollock, whom we tend to think of as a web-weaving, linear artist, was also a real colorist, idiosyncratic and original. There is something vulgar about the palette of Blue Poles, with its giddy dance of aluminum paint and hot orange, but it is the kind of vulgarity that fairly seethes with life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dappled Glories | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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