Word: vulgarisms
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...young man who has gained his craft so easily that he may be in danger of losing his art, does the best work of his brief screen career. Chief credit belongs to the director, France's René Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise). He has done some of the vulgar things that the bankers believe the mass audience requires, but he has also been honestly concerned to preserve the passionate spirit of the book, the sinister genius of the place...
...whose capacity for indecision has become historic, chose exactly the wrong moment and the wrong method to prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist. As for Nixon, he has greatly diminished sympathy for his behavior by a vulgar attempt to convert this dismal tour into a presidential campaign trip. He had established his valor in Peru; his insistence on a repeat performance in Venezuela indicates that he was utterly seduced by his press notices, and incapable of recognizing his own limitations...
...plumage was vivid and vulgar-a sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster...
...matter of fact, the script is rather too strongly inclined to see the best in people and events. The war clouds are dark indeed, but somehow they usually turn out to have a silver lining. And toward the end the whole film goes gargling noisily down the vulgar drain of propaganda...
...hard-riding George Christopher was not about to hang up his hardware. After the fact-finding committee gave Goodie the nod, Christopher unleashed his pistols, accused Knight supporters of circulating literature of "such a low grade" as to be "vulgar and wholly un-American." It was, he said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican...