Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings to take a phone call from his wife. Last month he surprised his two youngest children by taking them to a Michael Jackson concert, though he dislikes the music. The whole family recently walked out during the third act of the Broadway hit Hurlyburly. The language was too vulgar for them. During Christmas time they all took a boat cruise to Mexico. Ueberroth rarely goes to the movies and watches little television. While not intellectual, he is tirelessly inquisitive and reads about 30 books a year, preferring historical nonfiction...
Such spin-offs as fan clubs, lunch boxes and watches are being added to spur interest. Ideal (ten nonconvertible Robo Force figures such as Cruel and Vulgar) even issues a slick, 90-page magazine with feature articles on robotics and the future...
...their responsibility as symbols for black Americans. "It was said for a while that the only way you could appeal to the masses was to be decadent, but that's not true," observed the candidate. "No dope-oriented album ever sold as much as Thriller, and no vulgar artist ever became so famous as Michael has." That being so, the Reverend made sure he would be welcome at home, by getting Michael's autograph for his daughter Jackie...
Mondale, aware of the rising emotions in which he could be engulfed, blasted Farrakhan's remarks as "venomous, bigoted and obscene," and said, "It is crucial that all of us, including the Rev. Jackson, repudiate Farrakhan." Henry Siegman, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, called Farrakhan "a vulgar bigot." But Siegman claimed that "the real issue is whether Walter Mondale will finally screw up enough courage to publicly break with Jesse Jackson unless Jackson repudiates, clearly and unequivocally, the political support of his racist and anti-Semitic friend...
...writing, but one can also be a philosopher in action. That means not only that the praxis is the conversion into action of a certain theory--Philosophers have interpreted the world, etc.--but also that one's actions can be read theoretically. We were, in a certain sense, vulgar empiricists. We were insensitive to anything we could not see, and we never made distinctions where we found none in empirical reality...