Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democratic societies cannot permit arbitrary abridgment of facts and opinion. Previous efforts indicate the clear and present danger. All we can do is approach our information more critically, aware that our desire for knowledge about one another can indicate nothing more noble than vulgar curiosity. But even self-criticism must have its limits, and we should not forget that keeping in touch remains a sign of an ancient faith, inherited from our Revolution: that enlightenment will eventually bring its own reward and that a form of truth can somehow emerge, battered but intact, from the mass of information that both...
Finally a warning. ABC has a mini-series of Irwin Shaw's RICH MAN, POOR MAN (Monday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) that makes Beacon Hill look like the later Henry James. Vulgar in characterization, tacky in execution, yet earnestly convinced that it is offering a panorama of postwar American life, it does not even give viewers the consolation of being unintentionally funny. The only hope is to draw a team from the cast and enter it in Almost Anything Goes. It would be a socko-and merciful-finish for both shows...
Last year Chevy was writing for the Smothers Brothers when Producer Lorne Michaels hired him for SN. Several of the show's writers were given brief on-camera appearances. But only Chevy-making vulgar faces behind the backs of his guest editorialists on "Weekend Update"-clicked. "I guess I just look so straight and normal," says Chevy, "nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall." Impressed by Chevy's instant popularity, Michaels began to use him more and more. Now Chevy often outshines the guest host. His success has not been wholeheartedly welcomed by the rest...
Publisher Flynt, who claims a 1.5 million circulation for his monumentally vulgar magazine ("We're looking to turn the reader on, not respond to some sexual fantasy"), is charged with offering the services of a prostitute to one of the city's vice-squad members. Flynt runs three Hustler Clubs in Ohio, tacky rip-offs of the Playboy Clubs, offering expensive drinks and leggy "hostesses." His Cincinnati dive has been in and out of trouble with the police and the state's liquor-control commission for several years...
That genius of the vulgar, Harry Cohn, always refused to permit movies about the American Revolution to be made on his Columbia Pictures lot. He believed that men in knee breeches and powdered wigs, spouting the stilted locutions of the 18th century, looked and sounded too silly for audiences to take seriously...