Word: vulgarity
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...from CBS included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar showmanship, but, in fact, it threw in the heaviest salvo of all: the $16 million sequel to Roots, which two years ago drew the biggest audience of all time...
Hughes vividly remembers the shock of seeing his first great building. Says he: "I had been taught to respect only the austere International Style of architects like Le Corbusier, and I should have considered the Paris Opéra to be inflated and vulgar. Instead, as I walked into that gilded whale, I felt like Jonah being swallowed by the great fish. The Opéra is a stately, generous building that makes you feel that you are the one to whom the structure is directed...
...Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga called for political equality but social hierarchy, since he believed that "inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty." His decades of exile, he once told a reporter, were not too bad since, he said. "I carry Spain inside...
Just before last Christmas, a racing-car driver entered the museum-like sanctum of Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan to buy a diamond ring for himself. A clerk told him that such a purchase would be "vulgar" for a man. The driver argued: "I'm a customer, and your job is to give me what I want." Sniffed the clerk: "What you want is your business. What we sell is our business...
With his hero's accident, Green transforms the novel from a typical schoolboy memoir into a remarkably mature meditation on losses and gains. He slips easily into the minds and emotions of characters around Haye: the boy's stepmother, an old nanny, the sad, slightly vulgar daughter of an unfrocked clergyman. All, in varying ways, must struggle to cope with the presence of a person to whom the intolerable has happened. He too must struggle to grow into his tragedy...