Word: vulgarizer
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Soon all of Arnhem, and half of Holland, was talking about the gargoyles. Cartoonist Toonder wrote in to suggest that his copyright was being infringed. At last report, no protest had arrived from Disney, and Arnhem's burgomaster thought the affair more funny than vulgar. go right ahead, he told Verlaan after trudging topside for a look. That was just enough to spur Sculptor Vreeling on to greater artistic heights. Not far from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Vreeling is happily at work carving another stone figure: a dragon peeping out from a mushroom-shaped cloud. The dragon...
...side line for Katz-huge toy soldiers, a kind of instant folk art, that would be fine if everyone concerned did not insist on taking them seriously. "I like to mix what people and experts say can't be mixed," says Katz. "I like to take a vulgar social thing or idea like these cutouts and give them something else, make them less boring." Katz's Washington is much like what any normally talented youngster might produce if asked to paint the father of his country. To set the stage for the Washington-Cornwallis dialogue, Katz made...
...dishonorable not only to get drunk and disorderly, said she, but also to have premarital sexual relations-on or off the campus. Vassar College, she added, does not and will not condone "offensive or vulgar behavior." Any student unable to live up to "decent" standards should withdraw before she is asked to leave...
...segment of the advance guard has suddenly pulled a switch. Unknown to one another, a group of painters have come to the common conclusion that the most banal and even vulgar trappings of modern civilization can, when transposed literally to convas, becomes...
...democracy: "I am no democrat, save in politics. I think the state is a vulgar institution. But life itself is an affair of aristocrats...