Word: vulgarisms
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...combined mansion warm ing and coming-out ball for Jeanette Constable Maxwell, 17, daughter of a longtime Getty friend. The party drew excellent notices from the press. "Easily the most fabulous evening since the war," burbled London Daily Express Columnist William Hickey, who also hailed it as "good, oldfashioned, vulgar fun." Another waggish Fleet Streeter made a kill joy calculation: the party lasted eight hours and probably cost Getty $30,000 -but in the same period his fortune automatically swelled by an estimated...
Wrote Critic Mario Monteverdi in utter exasperation* at the Fautrier prize: "It is fitting that Fautrier should have won . . . for his are the ugliest, most vulgar, and useless non-paintings in the entire show. Giving him a prize clears the way for a legitimate revolt which, if clamorous enough, might save the Biennale...
...Jonson ("Shakespeare wanted art"), the Restoration and the Age of Reason argued that the Bard was a barbaric child of Nature whose war bled woodnotes wild violated the Aristotelian unities of time, place and action. His plots were a confusing mishmash of the tragic and comic. He was vulgar. Samuel Pepys confided to his diary that Hamlet "disgusts this refined age." Dryden called him "divine Shakespeare," but added smugly: "I have refined his language, which before was obsolete." Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill...
...Immoral." Bikinis, to hear the designers tell it, are favorably regarded only by the well-shaped women who buy them. "Most manufacturers do not like Bikinis," admits Rose Marie Reid, one of the most popular of U.S. swimsuit stylists. "They are vulgar, hideous, immoral." Fred Cole of Cole of California agrees. Bikinis account for about 5% of all swimsuit sales...
...hates Billy Graham, Perry Como, Southerners, Mother's Day, dogs ("vulgar love proletarians"), advertising ("a soggy, overripe fungus"), Guy Lombardo, Ernest Hemingway, and Harry J. Anslinger, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics. TV is in the hands of "lentilheaded sponsors' wives" and represents "some sort of gargantuan hoax," with one or two exceptions. (His own talk program, Alex in Wonderland, which is now being syndicated nationally, "is as refreshing as a breath of stale air in a vacuum.") As for people in general, they are "adenoidal baboons" caught in life's "erratically op erated sausage...