Word: vulgarizer
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...mail, Hewitt described American Pie as "crass" and "vulgar" and said that she "was sorry that [they] picked one like that...
...Giuliani time!" as he prepares for the film's final showdown--a reprise of a cruel reference to New York City's hard-line mayor that was famously and falsely attributed to the cop who tortured Abner Louima. If that isn't enough, contrast this Shaft's vulgar behavior toward a black woman in the film's only romantic sequence with the original Shaft's tender, though hardly exclusive relationship with his girlfriend. The new Shaft is neither a heroic knight errant nor a sex machine; he's just another ego-tripping homicidal misogynist...
Disbelief. Denial. Those are bad words, not because they're vulgar but simply because they both start with a big, bad, green "D," serving as constant reminders of the green-clad skaters from New Hampshire who beat the Harvard women's hockey team all three times they played...
...lavish mini-series follows Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a charismatic kitchen boy who insinuates and murders his way to power within the tired, decaying House of Groan. Unlike many American fantasy minis, it's neither a ponderous classics lesson nor a sugarcoated trifle, but a grotesquely funny, vulgar and penetrating tale of class and demagogy with pointed meaning for Britons. "In Gormenghast, you have this rusty royal family--well, I don't need to say more about that, do I?" says producer Estelle Daniel...
Lance Morrow's wit notwithstanding, his description of Elizabeth Taylor as a "gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability" [ESSAY, May 8] ignored the great amount of good this flamboyant lady has accomplished during her turbulent life. Without Taylor's name, her style, her money and her dedication, the battle against AIDS--especially during the Reagan years--would have progressed at a much slower pace. LEWRIGHT B. SIKES Antioch, Tenn...