Word: vulgarizer
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...movie screen is, among other things, a big lighted window. And we, watching in the dark, are, among other things, voyeurs, always hoping to see forbidden sights. Sliver's vulgar lure is that we will be allowed to peep at Sharon Stone in various stages of undress, in a variety of compromising positions. Its somewhat more interesting premise is that she is a projection of our watching selves, a respectable Manhattan publishing-house editor named Carly Norris, who is herself drawn into voyeurism. In other words, we are invited to watch a watcher as she learns to like watching...
Because either a) a new administration at the foundation has decided to bring the Barnes into an era of public accessibility, thus promoting knowledge and beauty, or b) the same administration has condemned these valuable and fragile paintings, against the explicit will of their dead owner, to a vulgar road show that will expose them to intolerable risk...
...John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted, the entire contents of the "drunk, sick and broken" Chaim Soutine's studio "for a pittance" -- about...
...Western Civilization, the bible--which I'm reading line by line and reading all the commentary on--justifies slavery, misogyny, missandry, homophobia, persecution of followers of other gods, and that the central figure of Western Civilization, Jesus Christ, makes very intolerant speeches about Greeks and Samaratins; he was a vulgar nationalist. And I think something is to be said for both sides. When [West] lectures [Afrocentics] for their fascism, he tolerates fascism in the feminist movement. I think that's a disagreement that we have...
...Down: deplore its crudeness or admire its shrewdness. But it is occasionally the movies' job to plunge into the national psyche, root around in its chaotic darkness and return to the surface with some arresting fantasy that helps bring our uglier imaginings into focus. In that sense, this often vulgar and exploitative movie has some value...