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...brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange-flavored green tea sweetened with honey. They started Midnight Dragon malt liquor in the mid-1980s and, to promote it, printed thousands of posters featuring a scantily clad woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw and a vulgar tagline. Midnight Dragon peaked at 3 million cases annually. In the early '90s, Vultaggio's Crazy Horse malt liquor took off, until protests and lawsuits from Native American groups compelled some states...
According to O’Reilly, even though “people have realized that it’s not the Ireland of their grandmothers and grandfathers,” the vulgar, rougher language of the plays and the contemporary issues they tackle have created a negative reaction in some audience members. “Sometimes they come with their own perceptions of what is Irish,” he says...
Contemplative, slightly disturbing, and thoroughly charming, “An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein” successful conveys a feeling comparable to the experience of reading a Silverstein book Most people do not associate author and poet Silverstein with political commentary, cocaine use, or words too vulgar to be printed here. However, all of these realms, as well as Silverstein’s more well-known arena of warped childhood fantasy, were merrily and masterfully explored onstage in the Loeb Experimental Theater this past weekend in “An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein,” directed...
...from the beginning—boil down to two fundamental problems: style and ethics. Everyone knows that Larry Summers was brought to Harvard to “shake things up.” For better and for worse, he has done that. His penchant for brash, inflammatory, and often vulgar statements is legendary. Indeed, it is difficult to find a faculty member at Harvard who doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter with the president, in which he was unnecessarily hostile or dismissive, alienating or offending someone...
...sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period, featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed too vulgar. But as Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of upscale retailer Neiman Marcus, pointed out, "the winds of fashion are changing quickly...