Word: vulgarize
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Lance Morrow's wit notwithstanding, his description of Elizabeth Taylor as a "gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability" [ESSAY, May 8] ignored the great amount of good this flamboyant lady has accomplished during her turbulent life. Without Taylor's name, her style, her money and her dedication, the battle against AIDS--especially during the Reagan years--would have progressed at a much slower pace. LEWRIGHT B. SIKES Antioch, Tenn...
...time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous--famous for being fat or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
...time. She has passed through so many addictions (to booze and painkillers), through so many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumor, broken back), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem, at last, to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous - famous for being fat, or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
...with nary a smile or laugh—about “stealing Bob’s woman.” Huh? As far as I could tell, my blatantly insulting Bob all night—to his face no less—in return for his vulgar and sexist comments was a strong signal that I wanted him. The male ego is indeed a curious thing. Never before had I met a guy so turned on by being dissed...
...downside. There's the ketchup candy, for instance. Also, Spaniards have a bothersome habit of throwing fruit at you from their window and yelling "Yankee go home, muddafudda!" (really). But in Stage Two you don't get angry, you get concerned. What about American imperialism has angered these vulgar, fruit-throwing Spaniards? Are they mad we stole Antonio Banderas? Seriously, if you want him back, we can have him packed and shipped in under an hour...