Word: vulgarizer
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...capital of fashion, females from all over the world are now swarming daily into the Exposition's Pavilion d'Elégance, but most of the great French creators of style are a match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such...
...party. Alongside this crusty diehard, the New York Herald Tribune might easily be mistaken for the Communist Daily Worker. Sad was the day in plush British drawing rooms when the Morning Post began to limp. After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level of the penny press in an attempt to restore circulation. This year it was down to 116,000 and everybody in Fleet Street knew it was for sale...
While the Cinema has been growing up as industry and art, the movie press has signally failed to keep pace with it. That the Cinema deserved, and the literate portion of its U. S. public would welcome, something more than tradepapers, highbrow snippets and vulgar fan magazines, has long seemed obvious. This week on U. S. newsstands appeared 52,000 copies of the first substantial effort to supply this demand. It was Cinema Arts, a FORTUNE-sized, 50?, slick-paper magazine, published by Albert Griffith-Grey, younger brother of the oldtime cinema director, David Wark Griffith...
...divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records of this court...
...aficionado, the great days of bullfighting had already gone over the horizon with Joselito and Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high standards, bullfighting had become decadent: its matadors were virtuosos, its backers venal, its public vulgar. Against this modern (1934) background of decadence Joseph Peyre sets his Prix Goncourt prize-winning novel of bullfighting Madrid...