Word: vulgarizer
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...Halpern clan is a family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated...
...right for De Gaulle to annoy the perfidious English, the vulgar Americans or the impossible Belgians," huffed a Gallic gourmet in Paris last week, meanwhile extracting a gobbet of white succulence from a pink lobster tail. "But to endanger lobster shipments, so vital to France, by picking a fight with the Brazilians-that's too much...
There is a tendency among Jews to laugh off the elements of their culture that are in fact ugly. The most vulgar financial preoccupation has been made the substance of frivolity: witness the well-paid boor, Allan Sherman. At the same time, there seems to be a process of counter-assimilation (to the extent that a nation's theater and humor are an index of its culture, America is becoming increasingly 'Jewish'). The country is adopting only those strains of Jewish culture that reenforce its own social outlook--substitution of financial concerns for humane ones, the apotheosis of anonymity...
...word 'Jew' is a noun," he advised, "and should never be used as an adjective or verb. To speak of 'Jew girls' or 'Jew stories' is both objectionable and vulgar. The use of the word Jew as a verb-'to Jew down'-is a slang survival of the medieval term of opprobrium, and should be avoided altogether...
This is the condition of Flora Goforth, who must meet not her publisher's deadlines, as she likes to think, but her Maker's, as in her terror-gnawed bones she knows. Flora is a vulgar, bawdy, explosive clown in her 60s, an eternal show girl, who has buried six husbands and who, fingers warty with jewels, is still desperately, greedily, and somehow gallantly grabbing at life in a mountaintop villa in Italy. Indeed, she has three villas, pink, blue and white, all wired up in a walkie-talkie intercom system into which she dictates at all hours...