Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of your residences is in a place so unpublic that the roads to it are not even paved, "indeed are hardly passable by your ordinary vulgar automobile...
That is why it is important to support King now and in the final election--because he is the only front-running candidate who has truly exempted himself from the vulgar opportunism endemic to city polities. True, King is not the most dynamic of personalities, and true, he has no management experience. But neither do any of the other frontrunners...
...miserable--that is, anything that can be cursed or sexually degraded. Naturally, his adopted homeland comes in for more than its fair share of rabbit punches. "And yet I scorn you (Americans)," he writes. "Because you lead dull lives, sell yourselves into the slavery of work, because of your vulgar plaid pants, because you make money and have never seen the world. You're shit...
...Core course in failure, New York gave me a glimpse at the outer limits of ambition and success. Most of the energy which I encountered was youthful and venturesome. But, as one might expect, some of the striving was sustained by less appealing qualities. An extreme case was a vulgar Citizen Kane whose quiet dinner party I attended one summer evening. I was greeted at the entance to his Park Avenue estate by an armed bodyguard. Placed there for protection against a vindictive ex-wife. The host led the several of us on a tour of his urban Shangri...
Unfortunately, La Cage is not always up to the level of its best performances or its best moments. Herman's music is better-than-average Broadway fare, hummable and with a simple, insistent beat. But his lyrics are often trite and vulgar. "Look under our glitz, muscles and tits," he writes in one song. Fierstein's book is sometimes forced; the campy scenes with the black maid/butler (William Thomas Jr.) quickly become tedious, for example Arthur Laurents' direction is occasionally jarringly awry, as when he has the mother of Jean-Michel's fiancee do a degrading...