Word: vulgarizer
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...been to Los Angles in the past few years, you may have noticed that the last Great American Dream Machine, Hollywood, has fallen into disuse and disrepair. Many of the big film lots have closed, studios are auctioning off their sets and costumes, the large vulgar marquees of the glamorous film palaces have been dismantled. And so it goes. But, like every other legend the West has given us, the peculiar and fascinating mythos of the movie capital will live on-in books, in songs, and, of course, in the movies themselves...
...film is shot in gaudy studio sets, colored with vulgar purples and red-oranges. It is peopled with studio bosses, agents, wardrobe women, and sycophants. The action unfolds in Hollywood mansions, Sunset Strip restaurants, film studios and tacky hotels with flashing neon signs, concluding with a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. To satisfy the Nathaniel West fans, Aldrich has also thrown in a perverse and crippled gossip columnist (Coral Browne), a lusty Mexican, and a heroin-addicted lesbian...
...names of lovers. "I notice the obscenities but write about the heart and the lovers," she said. "Ginsberg notices the heart but writes about the obscenities." In another part of the forest, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. genially kidded the grandstanding proclivities of Norman Mailer. "I think it's vulgar to hog the news to the extent Mailer does," he told a seminar. As to why Mailer does it, Vonnegut said that he has found that "careers last 20 years. It's true of baseball players and chess masters, so you see it has nothing to do with brains...
...likely to produce another Shakespeare or a Bible translation equivalent to that produced by King James' bench of learned men. They wrote when English was young, vital and untutored. English in 1971 is an old, overworked language, freshened sporadically only by foreign borrowings or the flickering, vulgar piquancy of slang. All of us-from the admen with their jingles to the tin-eared scholars with their jargon-are victims as well as victimizers of the language we have inherited...
...charges in front of the Faculty need to he answered. There has been much publicity about the two "opposition members" of the CRR; another member of the CRR went to a member of the Senior Common Room of my House, and then attacked me verbally in a quite vulgar manner; and then Prof. Anderson charges that "at least one member of the CRR has revealed privileged information," offering no proof of his charges, and at a forum where no reply was possible. I don't think it would take great mental leaps for any of the Faculty to assume...