Word: vulgarizations
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...desire to demonstrate that black street styles are not stereotypes at all but put-ons. Such disguises can-sometimes-help individuals to get at least some of what they want with out permitting a hostile world to know that they are trying. Bakshi's sensibility is too vulgar for such an exercise. With a newspaper storm breaking around him, he has been reduced to protesting that "I love black people, I love the guys I grew up with" (in Brooklyn's Brownsville section in the '50s, when it was becoming a black ghetto). One is inclined...
...E.D.T.). The network does not merely admit that the series is based on Upstairs, Downstairs; it is positively insistent on the point. That is a sensible policy, since it is doubtful if the uninstructed viewer could perceive any connection between the engaging PBS bundle from Britain and its vulgar American cousin...
...scene is the German occupation of Warsaw, where Benny and friends outwit the Nazis. The humor is often best because it comes so dangerously close to bad taste-people got mad at it when it came out because of the subject matter, but it's nowhere near as vulgar as the respectful shlock made in those years with great legs swooning when the stormtroopers come, or Betty Grable exhorting the troops. As a matter of fact, my most earnestly Zionist friend gets convulsive with laughter at the concentration camp jokes whenever he sees it. With Carole Lombard, in her last...
...gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so glamorized...
...remember my last year at Harvard. I had come up early for some reason and was sitting behind those huge vulgar cream pillars at Memorial Church or Appleton Chapel. Some new boy came across the Yard with an armload of records and a German helmet on his head. A group of freshmen were on the other side of the pillar...