Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vulgar Facts...
Ending with Absinthe. As might be expected, Leigh looks on modern art with loathing and dismay. His conclusion: it is all an indirect result of absinthe-drinking in mid-19th century France, which "ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons and everything else." The vulgar folk, Leigh reasons, thought everything that was different was good, and they slowly imposed their love of novelty and disdain for nature-painting on the whole world of art. Some of today's artists, huffs Painter Leigh, bristling his snowy mustache, have sunk...
...Cincinnati, Audio Controls Corp. offered a gadget to throttle TV commercials. Named Blab-Off, the device is a simple, remote-control sound switch, advertised to eliminate the "long, loud, vulgar, boring commercials that force their way into your living room." While the advertising spiel goes off, the TV picture stays on, so that viewers can tell when the commercial is over and switch the sound on again. Price: $2.98. Advertisements for Blab-Off have been refused by The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, possibly because the sales pitch was right up there with...
...worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...
...still waiting. Most of the letters from listeners urged: "Let's have more of Gerald Kelly." Attendance at the exhibit increased sharply. But the London Daily Express primly editorialized that Sir Gerald "brings honor neither to his position nor to himself by descending to the use of vulgar expletives." Commented unrepentant Sir Gerald: "Did I say that the Man in Armour was a bloody marvel? Well, it is a bloody marvel...