Word: vulgarizer
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...literature we have little Englandisms-you close the doors and try to be intensely yourself. In contrast to the conspicuous consumption of America, we have developed a sense of inconspicuous hoarding. Great energy is suspect here. It looks vulgar to the English eye. England has the enormous psychological problem of having 1,000 years of history behind it. The question is: What is there left to do? The past here has become so present that the great mood is looking back-sometimes it seems as if there is nothing on television every night but war films, all looking back...
Duff and Beth each recite a soliloquy, inter-cut with that of the other. Duff's is a vulgar one, talking mostly of events of the past few days, but often reminiscing about the past, and occasionally addressing Beth: "Do you like me to talk to you? Mmmm, I think you do." Beth's soliloquy is lyrically sensual, consisting totally of her memories (fantasies?) of a sandy beach where she lay with her lover in the distant past...
...difficult to keep one's composure in the face of such a verbal onslaught, but a woman of her background should hear beyond his vulgar words. An incomplete little man, he indicted himself beyond redemption, for what Sinatra says about Cheshire says more about Sinatra than it does about Cheshire...
...open letter to the bank, written in the elegant script of a wedding announcement and placed as an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, Hoving declared: "We are very sad to see that you are once again polluting the aesthetic atmosphere of Park Avenue by lighting that loud and vulgar Christmas tree on Park Avenue and 53rd Street...We earnestly urge you to put out those glaring lights." At first the bank gasped. Then it began explaining that 1) the tree was not "vulgar" but was a creation of the celebrated design firm of Raymond Loewy/William Snaith, creators of, among...
...suited for musical adaptation as Don Quixote. That did not prevent the stage version of Man of La Mancha from racking up 2,328 performances in New York City alone, besides being translated into almost as many tongues as the King James Bible. Nor has it forestalled this epically vulgar movie. Dale Wasserman's script plunks Cervantes down in a dank dungeon to await his trial by the Inquisition; there he performs Don Quixote as a charade for the amusement and instruction of his fellow prisoners. Peter O'Toole acts both Cervantes and Quixote about as well...