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Your facts were not only untrue but were vulgar to the extreme. Why did you burlesque me with beer drinking? Although I do not dislike the beverage, I did not at any time make reference to drinking gallons of it. I was misquoted throughout the entire article, especially the part which said: "They want to show those films through the colonies and say 'Look what we have done for Dunbar' - but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Very little of the pay is used for "pork chops." The most of it is used for booze and women, all in a loud, vulgar display that advertises the U.S. abroad most disgracefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Low Taste | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...made them stand out as far as the smearing fist in his Self Portrait (see cut). Siqueiros' second entry was relatively calm-a green and gold description of three muscular, writhing gourds-but it was not quite so innocuous as it looked. In Spanish, calabazas (gourds) is a vulgar insult when spoken without a smile. Explained Siqueiros: the three calabazas stand for the three Government schools in charge of the competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexican Volcano | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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