Word: vulgarizer
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...Core course in failure, New York gave me a glimpse at the outer limits of ambition and success. Most of the energy which I encountered was youthful and venturesome. But as one might expect, some of the striving was sustained by less appealing qualities. An extreme case was a vulgar Citizen Kane whose quiet dinner party I attended one summer evening I was greeted at the entrance to his Park Avenue estate by an armed bodyguard placed there for protection against a vindictive ex-wife. The host led the several of us on a tour of his urban Shangri...
...worst, Wood was almost everything his critics said: vulgar, provincial, cute, mannered, and untruthful about the realities of country life. His paintings have much less documentary truth to offer about the Midwest in the '30s than Margaret Bourke-White's camera, but there are no photographs of Eden. This show allows us to see what Wood's assets were: mainly, the deep lyricism rising from his certainty that he had discovered a vein of imagery no other painter had mined...
...rational Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
Knapp was so offended by the Band's performance that he sent a letter to President Bok, objecting to the Band's conduct at the September 26 UMass game, and complaining that the band used "obscene language" and "vulgar gestures...
European taxation evolved historically according to different customs. In France, for example, no aristocrats paid any taxes until the Revolution of 1789; it was considered vulgar. Even today there is no tradition of computing one's own tax. That is the responsibility of the neighborhood tax collector, and what he doesn't know won't hurt anyone. Instead of relying on income taxes, French authorities in the '50s introduced the value-added tax, which collects anywhere from 5% to 33% on most commercial transactions. Like any sales tax, it implicitly discriminates against the poor...