Word: vulgarizer
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...tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...
...trouble is, every once in a while Pryor gets the urge to be humanitarian, to show that beneath his vulgar exterior lies a man aware of the seriousness of the subjects he is discussing. Much in the same manner that Don Rickles takes time out from his usual barrage of insults to remind us that we should all love each other regardless of race colour or creed. Pryor interrupts his routine a couple of times to say things like "Racism's an ugly thing. I hope someday they give it up." "This is all well and good...
...unemployed should take such an uncharitable view of their own ordeal. Actually, they have merely carried into joblessness, and applied to themselves, the attitudes inculcated in them by workaday society. The American view of joblessness has never been overly sympathetic. Pioneer America flaunted its punitive sentiment in a vulgar aphorism: "Root, hog, or die!" While that position has been softened a bit (witness unemployment benefits that have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary, the nation has not relinquished...
...billion Christmas cards that will be sold this year by Hallmark, which claims the largest share of the Christmas market. While religion is in, Santa seems to be ho-ho-ho-ing himself out of popular favor. He has been getting silly and vulgar lately, so good riddance...
...McKellen and Janey Suzman frolic in bed with all the emotion and ingenuousness of a whoreand her john. It is even more discouraging to see McKellen swimmaked on his back in an English lake. Gratuitous nudity translates this unmanageable passion Miles seems so intent on portraying into a vulgar act with all the subtlety of a road-side strip joint. Frontal nudity simply adds nothing to the quality of realism...