Word: vulgarizer
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...Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise to go for the vulgar and the sensational, then to avoid responsibility by claiming to give the public what it wants...
...film's technical aspects complement the carefully understated acting and direction. Haskell Wexler's cinematography is skillful and at times breathtakingly beautiful, but it is never vulgar or flashy. The sets are simple and the props few; Ashby avoids mounting exhibits of United Artists' vast collection of antique furniture. Bound For Glory is accurate but not pedantic, entertaining but not slick. Like Woody's songs, Bound For Glory is deceptively simple; the surface simplicity serves only to mask the care and skill involved in its production. Besides, as Pete Seeger said in his forward to the book, "Any damn fool...
...with neo-classical conservatism. He tested the capacity of elegant design to withstand challenging poses. With the dancers, Degas takes on very difficult ballet postures and flirts wtih disequilibrium. With the bathers--and some of the horses--he plays the voyeur, catching his subjects in ungainly and at times vulgar contortions. Yet throughout his eye for "arabesque" (a term borrowed from dance, meaning "overall pattern of line") prevails, and his statuettes withstand his often perverse challenges. It is as if Degas wanted to tease his audience by effecting the spontaneously off-kilter or maladroit, merely to vindicate an operating principle...
...arrival is not his Post but its tabloid rival the New York Daily News. Though it still has the largest daily circulation of any American paper, the News's circulation has been going down. Under the editorship of Michael O'Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing cynicism, as well as those headlines that popped at you like bubble gum, all of which made the News the subway straphanger...
...Husbands, husbands, husbands--no man could control her energy; not this Cleopatra. Diamonds, bigger diamonds, romances, affairs, riots and more adorned her every step. We knew all about it. Time, Newsweek, People, CBS, The National Enquirer and The New York Times had told us so. We listened to the vulgar details for the same reason we watched her on the screen. She is excess. She exploits extremes of love and hate and self-adornment. She articulates those feelings inside us and pushes them to their extremes. Intensity: we love it and we need it. And that need, vicarious or otherwise...