Word: vulgarisms
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...singer, Sands mixes hoot and hush, moo and moon eyes. He is a sort of cleaned-up Presley. He enunciates better and grinds less, is less vulgar in sound and manner, also less able to turn on the excitement that Presley can frequently generate. But Tommy is doing fine without wriggling up to Elvis' loftier heights. In the three months since the Kraft show, Sands has taken the bathos treatment on This Is Your Life, sung on five network shows, screen-tested for a role in Marjorie Morningstar. He gets about 2,000 fan letters a day, has pulled...
...dressing funny to emulate the women she saw in Vander Elk's "Paris At Midnight" photography exhibit? It is hard to tell. Are those lacerated loafers, that patched jacket, and ragged shirt collar a disdainful protests against the brandnew clothes, the slick show of affluence by the ascendant vulgar, or just magnificently down-at-heel aristocracy? Perhaps the diagnosis of a sophomore trying to look like a pre-publication existentialist is all wrong. It is hard to tell...
THEATER: "American theater in France is a complete failure. Paris thinks that Broadway is vulgar, that its themes are prefabricated, that its psychology is elementary." Tennessee Williams and Erskine Caldwell are the only U.S. authors whom the French consider truly American, and their popularity is based on the public expectations that "there will certainly be on the stage a girl who will get undressed, or make someone undress her, or better still, rape her, which in American means sleep with...
...former glamour girl is down and out, shaken by the DTs, degraded by three nightmare marriages plus numerous vulgar affairs, and reduced to borrowing $100 from Tyrone Power-how can she rehabilitate herself? By turning to Alcoholics Anonymous? To a psychoanalyst? To the Salvation Army? Whatever else she tries, there is a handier way. She simply writes a book about...
...aesthetic criterion, however, is challenged most graphically by George Grosz. Sharp, biting, vitriolic, his satires often, as in "I Am The Boss," amount to a vulgar denial of aesthetics. Grosz succeeds in his attempt to revolt and disgust. His portrayals of lasciviousnes, corruption and wretchedness hit home with intended impact for they are executed in line and wash that are as sickly and depressing as their subjects...