Word: vulgarizer
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...study of popular culture has come under the fire of educational traditionalists, who charge that the university is a place to study high art--not vulgar forms of entertainment. They see infinitely more value in a treatise on Spinoza than a paper on Spike...
...Visa-card bills. Maura Sheehy's portrait of Fox TV as the "ninja" fourth network is hyped with adrenal adjectives and metaphors to the point of incoherence. Details shows glints of awareness of an America beyond white male plutocrats. But when it is not trendy, it is often aggressively vulgar...
...dozen telephone lines at the cramped office of Talkline/Kids Line in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ring softly every few minutes. Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director...
...little appeal for independence-minded Ukrainians. The article may also liberate him from his reputation as an advocate of authoritarianism. Though he maintained that democracy must grow "from the bottom up," he clearly endorsed the system. He cautioned, however, against excessive Western influence, decrying "degraded pop, mass culture ((and)) vulgar fashions...
...sure, the text has been nudged into modernity in the new translation and adaptation by Adrian Mitchell. His version took London by storm last season, winning an Olivier Award, and makes its U.S. debut at California's Berkeley Repertory Theater. The language is vernacular, sometimes vulgar, and even titled characters are stripped of grandeur and persiflage. The multiracial casting reflects contemporary America more than feudal Spain. Stylistically, the 20th century influence of Bertolt Brecht is evident throughout in the Marxist class analysis, didactic political sloganeering and use of song and dance to preach...