Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deep discount on Thursdays. An ad for the bar shows a pair of silken panties with the message, "Lose Something?" The bartender says a popular drink among female patrons is a mixture of Red Bull, Grand Marnier, Stoli Ohranj and orange juice. It is named after a vulgar phrase for vagina...
Under the aegis of American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brustein, the talented cast and crew offer a sophisticated insight on this sometimes vulgar Darwinian battle between the sexes. The Captain (Geordie F. Broadwater ’04), is the titular father, a career army man and respected amateur scientist, driven to insanity by his wife Laura (Catherine B. Gowl ’02) as she schemes to obtain control over their daughter Bertha’s education. Laura plant seeds of suspicion in the Captain’s mind about the true paternity of Bertha and about his very...
...when they talk about money feels like "a double victimization." Anthony Gardner, who lost a brother in the World Trade Center attacks, says he has received half a dozen e-mails calling him "greedy" and "a scumbag" for criticizing the proposed formulas for victim compensation. "One woman was so vulgar, I'm thinking about reporting her to AOL or something," he says...
...make a strong woman seem like an estrogen-deprived freak gives an actress plenty to work with. And Garner delivers. Tall and slim, with flying buttresses for cheekbones and pincushion lips, she is saved from true, distracting beauty by her masculine jaw and long forehead. Garner can be vulgar when Bristow is threatened with anesthesia-free dentistry, vulnerable when she's dealing with her morose CIA handler and horrified when she discovers her fiance murdered in the bath. But mostly Garner spunkily goes about the business of gathering intelligence and trapping bad guys as if spies were just women...
...within their community as a synonym for "soul brother." They bristle when whites use it, even in jest. But, as Kennedy observes, these long-established rules are changing because record and TV companies have discovered that there's gold in racial slurs. Thanks to gangsta rap and the vulgar comic routines of a generation of Richard Pryor wannabes, the N word is blasted onto the airwaves with such mind-numbing frequency that even white people believe they have permission to mimic the way blacks...