Word: vulgarizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home of Shoe Manufacturer Samuel Hurst, "a spade was a spade was a spade." Young Fannie was troubled by being fat, by being Jewish, above all by Mama, who was (as Author Hurst shows her in a striking portrait) vulgar, loud, socially ambitious, a woman young Fannie had to love and also had to get away from at any cost...
...including some lusty, gutsy sections never before performed) for the first time in Bertolt Brecht's inimitable original German. The result is by far the best recorded recreation of Kurt Weill's jazzy, bitterly ironic score, with Singer Lenya herself heading a first-rate cast. Every sardonic, vulgar accent is in place, and despite the music's familiarity, it sounds as fresh and sharp in this version as if Mack had a Drand new knife...
Silence in the Street. Some critics will reach for their nearest Dostoevsky, but Nabokov himself disdains comparison with the other Russian, whom he regards as a clumsy and vulgar writer. Yet, the suppressed criminal episode in Dostoevsky's' The Possessed invites analogy with Lolita. Stavrogin, Dostoevsky's moral monster, seduced an innocent. The difference is that Stavrogin told of his crime to prove he was capable of it; Nabokov's character tells his agonized story to show that he was incapable of not committing it. In Nabokov's world, crime is its own punishment...
...young man who has gained his craft so easily that he may be in danger of losing his art, does the best work of his brief screen career. Chief credit belongs to the director, France's René Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise). He has done some of the vulgar things that the bankers believe the mass audience requires, but he has also been honestly concerned to preserve the passionate spirit of the book, the sinister genius of the place...
...whose capacity for indecision has become historic, chose exactly the wrong moment and the wrong method to prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist. As for Nixon, he has greatly diminished sympathy for his behavior by a vulgar attempt to convert this dismal tour into a presidential campaign trip. He had established his valor in Peru; his insistence on a repeat performance in Venezuela indicates that he was utterly seduced by his press notices, and incapable of recognizing his own limitations...