Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sold for its anatomical comfort, Hautefeuille devised a callipygous montage. He commissioned some 2,000 'photographs of bare buttocks, those of his employees, their children and friends. "We cropped the pictures right down to the buttocks itself," says the adman. "It was more abstract-not obscene, not vulgar, not ugly." The resulting two-page layout of 50 men's, women's and children's bottoms became the talk of Europe. After its publication in major French, German and Belgian magazines, delighted readers pinned the ad to office walls all over the Continent and Airborne enjoyed...
...amoral position, represented by members of motorcycle gangs and other tadieals who believe in the correctness of violence, is an assertion of the sense of autonomy, transcending the sense of shame, or doubt. The free use of obscenity and disrespectful terms for persons in authority, is a recapitulation of vulgar infantile aggression patterns involving the use of excrement. So-called "permissiveness," actually the inhibition of parental anger, leaves the rage of both parent and child untested, and so in later life the child of a permission parent is likely to revert to this stage of development in an attempt...
...finest performances, in A Place in the Sun, here provides his star with an artificial stammer and some gross closeups. Beatty's hip swagger gives his part some edge, but it is continually blunted by flat, stagy confrontations that border on the claustrophobic. Occasionally the vulgar energy of Vegas makes itself felt, notably at the gambling tables, where the nervous gaiety breaks down into brilliant rhinestone cackles and suicidal moans. But such moments are rare. For the most part, the audience, like the gamblers, gets taken to the cleaners...
...blocks from Durgin Park (on Haymarket Square) is Mondo's, a sober truck stop with a great juke. Tucked inconspicuously between two blackened buildings, it's relatively simple, except for its one charmingly vulgar extravagance. On the most prominent wall hangs an immense oil painting of a nude with crimson lipstick, enormous entrees, and a torso elongated beyond the elasticity of the human anatomy. The obvious, but affable errors in the painting speak well for Mondo's as a restaurant. It gets away with a great deal because it's a truck stop and people there wear white socks...
...plot in the novel would be respectively prosecuted, banished or shot. It was like a carrot farmer putting up a no-trespass sign for rabbits. The book was pounced on immediately by the upholders of the well-made novel and 19th century gentility. Most critics found it shapeless, and vulgar. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott, "he had best stop writing for them." Such scoldings came despite Mark Twain's prepublication agreement to eliminate references to blasphemy, bad odors, dead cats, and to change...