Word: vulgarity
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...fantasy of song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio and Rose La Rose...
...rather it did; at Woodstock, hip culture proudly announced that it was just a young Yahoo America, that those long hair types you folks been fearing out there just want their drugs and music, courtesy of MGM or Warners, it doesn't matter. The ballgame was over for the Vulgar Marxists; that's what Peter Townshend was saying as he clubbed Abbic Hoffmann off the stage (no, it's not in the movie). The game metaphor had won out. Politics is a game, see, and if you play politics you play their game. Controlling your own life is a Western...
...sold for its anatomical comfort, Hautefeuille devised a callipygous montage. He commissioned some 2,000 'photographs of bare buttocks, those of his employees, their children and friends. "We cropped the pictures right down to the buttocks itself," says the adman. "It was more abstract-not obscene, not vulgar, not ugly." The resulting two-page layout of 50 men's, women's and children's bottoms became the talk of Europe. After its publication in major French, German and Belgian magazines, delighted readers pinned the ad to office walls all over the Continent and Airborne enjoyed...
...amoral position, represented by members of motorcycle gangs and other tadieals who believe in the correctness of violence, is an assertion of the sense of autonomy, transcending the sense of shame, or doubt. The free use of obscenity and disrespectful terms for persons in authority, is a recapitulation of vulgar infantile aggression patterns involving the use of excrement. So-called "permissiveness," actually the inhibition of parental anger, leaves the rage of both parent and child untested, and so in later life the child of a permission parent is likely to revert to this stage of development in an attempt...
...finest performances, in A Place in the Sun, here provides his star with an artificial stammer and some gross closeups. Beatty's hip swagger gives his part some edge, but it is continually blunted by flat, stagy confrontations that border on the claustrophobic. Occasionally the vulgar energy of Vegas makes itself felt, notably at the gambling tables, where the nervous gaiety breaks down into brilliant rhinestone cackles and suicidal moans. But such moments are rare. For the most part, the audience, like the gamblers, gets taken to the cleaners...