Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whiteside was written for me," said Welles. "They offered it to me first, but I didn't do it." Thirty-three years later, Welles finally agreed to star in an "updated" TV version. The critics' reactions were as waspish as anything Whiteside might offer: "heavy-handed," "vulgar," "disastrous." Said Welles, a little chastened: "I probably blew...
...Anshutz was not the only record. A cast of Frederic Remington's bronze Coming Through the Rye-a typical example of the vulgar, illustrative fist that Remington, artist laureate to the Wild West, brought to everything he touched-became the most expensive American sculpture in history, at $125,000. The previous record for an American watercolor ($36,000 for an Edward Hopper in 1970) was broken three times-by another Hopper, Light at Two Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same...
...same: scenes of destruction and decadence, of incredible decor, exaggerated sentimentality, twisted passions and a non-stop dialogue of references to the terrors and joys of artistic fervor. But by now, this melange of heavy drama and unbroken noise-making is as old as Hollywood's infant epics. The vulgar baroque that once amazed, is muted in The Savage Messiah and serves only to exacerbate the bankruptcy of Russell's vision. He projects his messiah pose as a ploy to forestall criticism altogether. It is understandable for an artist to indulge privately the idea that art is the savior...
...right to make a living; neither, despite their normal intelligence, had been able to find any other job. By a 6-to-1 vote, the court found: "It may be that certain malformations, perhaps those relating to private areas of the body or some which may be repulsive or vulgar in nature, would so affect the morals and general welfare as to lend themselves to a prohibition." But this was not so, said the court, in the case of a dwarf and a "sealboy." Declaring the law unconstitutionally broad and imprecise, Justice Hal Dekle ruled that "one who is handicapped...
...Eucharist as triumphal sacrifice-seemed to symbolize Paul's growing conservatism as he approaches his 75th birthday, next Tuesday. As if to underline his cautionary mood, the Pope last week decried a potpourri of moral pollutants-including contraception, abortion, adultery and divorce-that have made modern man "vulgar, vicious and sad." "We are walking in mud," he declared. He also linked sexual permissiveness with drug addiction. "Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics...