Word: vulgarisms
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...Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
...said nothing-nor did Claire's mother, who gave up and headed back to the U.S. But her Italian lawyer, Niccolo Bonelli, had a few words. Said he: "In any case the story is now completely over for us . . . We consider that Claire has been ruined by a vulgar delinquent...
Mosley was delighted with such big shows as Studio One ("a brilliant production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus"), Fred Waring and Paul Whiteman. He was equally taken by "more modest programs" like What's My Line, Blind Date, Hollywood Screen Test, Life Begins at Eighty. As for vulgarity: "Well, America is a vulgar country in the broadest sense of the word, and some of its down-to-earth brashness is bound to rub off into TV . . . Bride and Groom is as embarrassing as watching your girl friend publicly eating peas off her knife. But on the whole the programs...
Unlike most melodramas, The Prowler makes its principals recognizable human beings who, despite some obvious dialogue and a few unnecessary twists of a sensational plot, stay consistently within their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves...
...equally at home in the role of the vengeful, bossy female. She draws the fire of cartoonists in neighboring countries (see cut). It is Evita, not her Juancito, who performs most of the hatchet work in Argentine officialdom. Evita, not Juan, slings great, vulgar sums of money around. Some people in -Argentina may be able to look upon Perón with a certain amount of detachment; nobody can be neutral about Evita...