Word: vulgarize
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...cool and found myself instead in a Coca-Colonized country.The traditional notion of the French as stolid anti-Americans is complicated by their love for our pop culture. Many French critics hated the recently released “Simpsons” movie—one radio review called it vulgar, stupid, and American, as if the third adjective naturally followed the first two. Nonetheless, the movie stayed in theaters all summer and the show enjoys near universal popularity, as do other exported TV programs such as “Friends,” “Lost...
...late kick-off also prevented some fans from bringing along their families. James B. Keegan ’63 said he traditionally goes to Harvard football games to spend a relaxing afternoon with his grandchild. He said he was surprised by some of the more vulgar student cheers, including “Brown is poop, poop is brown.” “It is stupid,” Keegan said. “We have to leave at halftime. It makes no sense.” For Australia native Yoo Kyeung “Anna?...
...comment on the anti-Islam group, but provided a link to the site’s “Terms of Use” page, which forbids users from posting “any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.” Ola Aljawhary ’09, the Islamic knowlege officer of the Harvard Islamic Society, said she believes that the attention paid to the anti-Islam Facebook group only exacerbates the problem...
...sounds sweet, but it opens with Seth discussing with Evan which porn website they should subscribe to for the summer. (Top contender: Vagtastic.com. He also notes how jealous he is that the infant Evan got to nurse on Evan's mom's breasts. And it gets more vulgar from there...
...court's ruling said that "such frequent use" of vaffanculo and other merely vulgar expressions has created a kind of "inflation" where they have lost their original obscene and/or overtly hostile significance, even while "impoverishing language and manners." The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "obscene" speech does not enjoy First Amendment protection, and may in certain cases be criminal to express. Still, at least one of the nine U.S. justices, Sicilian-American Antonin Scalia, has some personal experience to work from. Last year when a reporter asked what he had to say to his critics, the brilliant judge responded...