Word: vulgarisms
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...Lipsi (a contraction of Lipsia, Latin for Leipzig) is what East Germany is dancing this week. Its nervous rhythms have been shuffling across the country from Rostock to Dresden ever since last summer when the Ministry of Culture sighted in on rock 'n' roll. Enough of this "vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double-time waltz. Dance Instructors Helmut and Christa Seifert...
...growled Wald. "Yes," shot back Cahn. But no one was listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left to mug his way through an unplanned 20-minute melee that had the somewhat sweaty aroma of a combination Arthur Murray, Lawrence Welk, Dick Clark free...
...kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan's WNTA-TV (says he: "I speak foully in public and private too") is the latest example of a growing TV trend-conversation...
...despite all its vulgar errors and commercial excrescences, the western story has given television something that it seriously lacked: a taproot in the American tradition, a meaning beyond the moment. And television has given the western story, the youngest and most prodigiously alive and kicking of the world's mythologies, a fresh chance to express itself, and to change with the times...
...frank eroticism of Fragonard's art, it is almost never vulgar. "His decency," said the brothers De Goncourt, "consists in the lightness of his touch." That seductive decency illuminated an exhibition of French drawings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week which featured Fragonard. His Fireworks, as the De Goncourts noted, has "an unrivaled deftness ... its sparks darting here and there, upon a shoulder or a thigh, flickering all over the bed of the three charming heroines of the picture...