Word: vulgarity
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...Galveston arch, a pair of towers connected by wire mesh, is more of the same, a flibbertigibbet accretion of painted waves, plywood sea creatures, banners, arches, gables, windows, lights, action. Aubry's rigid canopy of pleated gold fiber glass, topped by a big wooden fish, is baffling but unequivocally vulgar--like kitsch from another planet, or a collaboration between Claes Oldenburg and Cher. Powell's arch, with its oversize keystones, is a frolicking postmodernist fancy, circa 1980. Jahn has used the tensile imagery of naval architecture (masts, rigging, an upturned hull) to produce a fine object, jaunty but tough...
...obscene high-mindedness to limit actions against apartheid for fear of tainting an undergraduate legislative body with vulgar politicking. If there is a political faction that stands to benefit by a yes vote on question 2, this is as it should be. Why should anyone--particularly Harvard's decision makers--care about this "poll" if the Council itself ought not to act on it? Should student government poll students for their opinion only to deliberately ignore...
...first part, Crisp poses, postures and pontificates upon style, lifestyle and the pursuit of happiness. "In England," he asserts, "the pursuit of happiness is considered vulgar, but in America, everyone is mad about happiness." Needless to say, Crisp now lives in New York...
...daughter. Although the memoirs of Yael, 46, are cloaked in raiments of respect ("It was easy to admire him . . . he looked his best in uniform"), Moshe Dearest is remembered mostly for his inadequacies. He posed as a family man, but philandered compulsively ("His choice of bed partners was vulgar and in poor taste") and complained about Yael's boyfriends like a jealous lover. In the '70s other, wider conflicts intervened. After Israel's near catastrophe in the October War of 1973, the general was maligned by some of his own countrymen as "the architect of military cemeteries." His 35-year...
...ideal museum show would therefore be a mating of Brideshead Revisited (the only vulgar novel Evelyn Waugh wrote) with House & Garden. It should borrow widely and set forth an impressive parade of authoritative objects, with special attention paid to the decorative arts. It should sketch a portrait of a vanished order without revisionist detail, thus provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present...