Word: vulgarisms
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...weather, let alone any bad vibes on ABC the roads they (theoretically) share with the dispossessed multitudes inscribed on our consciousness by the fiction and photography of the period. Documentary verisimilitude is too much to ask of a sitcom, but surely there might be some semblance of the vulgar energy that animated the movie from which the show is derived-not to mention Joe David Brown's fine novel...
...father-with considerable anger and resentment toward both. Johnson's mother was a genteel woman who read Milton and Shakespeare to the young L.B.J. and forced him to take ballet and violin lessons. She saw her husband, a lusty small-time farmer, trader and politician, as a limited, vulgar man, and turned her affection to the young Lyndon in what Kearns calls "an emotional overfeeding that led him to grow up thinking the whole world should accommodate itself to him." But when Lyndon was 15, according to Kearns, Rebekah Johnson turned off the affection, often ignoring...
...assistants, undermined by owners, and harassed by hostile fans, who have literally pursued him and his family to their front door. Early one morning two years ago, the Devines were awakened by a sharp bang: one of their dogs had been shot outside the house. "It's been vulgar, malicious and ugly," Devine told TIME Staff Writer Philip Taubman last week. "It just makes me sick...
Born Yesterday is a variation on the Pygmalion story of a dumb girl who gets educated and, in this version, turns the tables on her rich, vulgar husband. The play, which dates from the late forties, was little more than a vehicle for the bizarre Judy Holliday, but this old warhorse could possibly be given a new twist in the light of new attitudes of sexism. At the Ex this weekend...
...City's borough of Brooklyn have been bunking into friends over on Toidy-Toid or Eighty-Foist streets or udder pernts around the place. Whether they ogled da goils, hersted da flag or simply berled in the noonday sun, they absolutely moidered the King's English. The "vulgar speech" that H.L. Mencken denounced in The American Language was long the despair of philologists, as well as a rich source of argot and gag lines for stand-up comics. But now Brooklynese seems to have just about gone the way of dem Bums, as the old Brooklyn Dodgers were...