Word: vulgarisms
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...cheaper vodka with blatant xenophobia to place a surprising third in the Russian presidential election won by Yeltsin last June. He has threatened to poison the newly independent Baltic peoples with nuclear waste and vows to expand Russian territory by force. Though his fanaticism has made him mainly a vulgar curiosity, some observers fear he may be a forerunner of politicians to come. Says Lev Timofeyev, a market-oriented economist: "A person with a program like Zhirinovsky's could be dangerous...
...what about The Harvard Crimson? What were you hoping to accomplish when you did Mr. Lane the disservice of printing his childish and vulgar cartoon...
...candidates had better have a very good reason for raising a topic that is so vulgar, upsetting and unpatriotic. I suggest that if challenged, they fall back on the defense already employed by various well-heeled felons that "the '80s made me do it." It was in the '80s, after all, that the rich got richer, and the poor took to camping out on concrete. Class became harder to ignore than those block-long stretch limos that scatter the common folk as they cruise down the streets...
Dottie is, in some ways, a Stella Dallas for the '90s -- gutsy, good- hearted, slightly vulgar. And a very caring single parent. Like Stella, who broadly symbolized another generation's sentiments about motherhood, Dottie encapsulates those feelings -- much more ambivalent -- as well as anyone has in recent popular entertainment...
...others through oral sex, pornographic movies which depict scenes of bondage, etc. Though the first man may feel uncomfortable with such open talk about sexual matters, he would not mention it to anyone. Because it does not represent an overt sexual threat, it would be excused as unusually vulgar male banter...