Word: vulgarisms
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...Manhattan wears the vulgar razzmatazz of Christmas like a frock coat--underneath she is the same old town you'd see the other 11 months, carrying out, as ever, her inevitable business. Explore her infinity on your own, put your own ear to her breast, then hear her internal rumblings. You must slow yourself down, not rush through on Gray-Line sightseeing tours, inundated by some puerile spiel. "Man," wrote Jon Hendricks in a jazz poem to Manhattan, "if you can't make it in N.Y. City you can't make it nowhere .... I wrote the shortest jazz poem...
...PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands, as a sexy pussycat who claws, and Alan Alda, as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...great an autobiography as any written in this century. Yet there is something sad about the creativity. It is sad because this mild cynic wished above all to grip naked reality. He ends up with new fantasies between his hands, fantasies that rushed in to take the place of vulgar illusions the existentialists hoped to strip away...
...production's balance, I think, was Gustav. He manipulated Adolph so easily, the transparency of his ploys seemed vulgar. At first I was bothered by his voice--Temin has adopted what sounds like a Texas accent, and at times his are the tones of a small-time politician. But had he been more suave and mysterious, as Strindberg specialists may argue he should have been, the play might easily have seemed foolish. The ordinariness and obviousness are what makes the whole situation so sordid...
Tekla is a selfish woman who wants to have her way, to be flattered, to flirt, but never to admit that anything is her fault; a vulgar coquette who must be assured of her charm and virtue. Miss Allen is that exactly. She is infuriating. She radiates stupidity and sick sexuality She justifies every relationship, every line, in the play...