Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coward's iridescent wit sometimes did not quite conceal a quality in him that was sentimental and even heartbroken. Nothing vulgar or mawkish, of course-just a sense of life's complicated unforgiveness. These two short plays, which were among his last works and probably not his best, still glisten with the famous Coward talent to amuse. But the evening ends with a certain suppressed sadness...
...there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular myth and occasional reality. Still, as successors of Founder John D. Rockefeller, they must contend with memories of the evils of the old Standard Oil Trust. Moreover, Exxon executives are inviting scapegoats simply because their company has more wells, refineries. pipelines...
...official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called the ad "deplorably vulgar." Grumped another Conservative, Joseph Kinsey: "It is debasing the standards of the gas board to suggest we should share our baths." Other Britons were taken with the idea, but still found Ap practical arguments to buttress the two Tories' starchy objections. Vacationing at a hotel in Somerset, one couple...
Donleavy's greatest asset is his own clipped, ungrammatical style, which reads quickly and cleanly, giving maximum impact to shocking references. But his heavy reliance on vulgar images weakens their shock value, as in this discription of a Queens neighborhood...
Many colleges still consider virtually any form of advertising as vulgar as graffiti on a mortarboard. At Loyola, the singing commercial seemed to please the faculty but it outraged the student newspaper. Labeling the pitch "degrading and embarrassing," an editorial declared: "Loyola is not a used-car dealership, or a carry-out Chinese restaurant or a discount department store. For the sake of St. Ignatius, aren't we a university...