Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in the ruckus. Britain's Randolph Churchill picked a fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good...
Lampooning the Vulgar. Powers' talent reaches also outside the rectory. In Blue Island a young suburban housewife's get-acquainted coffee pour turns into a cruel social fiasco when an older woman who has posed as a friend suddenly does a commercial spiel on furniture polish in mid-party, and later presses a collapsible mop on the sobbing hostess as a payoff for the captive customers...
...Vermont's 15,000 artists, strains in his attempt to "see things" as no one else in the hamlet can. One wishes he were spoofing. Shirley MacLaine's irregular love life seems of little concern to either Forsythe or herself, which is a good thing. She is attractive, vulgar, well-cast and a good match for Forsythe...
During the debate, proponents of the motion charged that the "Scribe" was unrepresentative of student opinion and had run statements "which were defamatory, vulgar, and bordering on deliberate lies...
...bands played one kind of marching tune: calypso.* Often calypso was considered vulgar, usually with good reason. But since 1920, when someone improvised a song called Class Legislation, calypso has been a kind of musical journalism, with such topical titles as The Destruction of Hurricane Janet, What's Federation?, The Princess Says...