Word: vulgarizers
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...talking to him. Keep an eye on the clock. Smile. Ask interesting questions. Don't cover your face with your hand. Listen to the guest's conversation and ask other interesting questions. Say funny things. Don't mug. Ignore Camera No. 1. Keep the conversation going. Don't make vulgar gestures or remarks. Try not to look at your notes. Resist the impulse to glance at your guest's zipper. Keep an eye on the producer, who is pointing desperately at the stage manager, who is waving his hands wildly at you in an attempt to direct your attention...
...Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He was an innovator who occasionally armed the bard's soldiers with machine guns and once staged Troilus and Cressida as an Edwardian piece, replacing Greeks with Prussians. Though he also directed Broadway hits, Sir Tyrone castigated the Great White Way as "a murderous, vulgar jungle...
...Women have been called drabs, slommacks, traipses, malkins, draggletails, blowens, bawdy baskets and bobtails. As for the act of sex, Greer likes the obsolete word swive because it has no vulgar linguistic emphasis on "the poking element...
...Maddocks sounds like the Miss Fidditch of the 1600s who was constantly admonishing her school charges not to use that "vulgar" word you, but rather the "correct" thee, thou, thy and thine. Languages have always changed, such change is neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy," and neither the admonitions of a Miss Fidditch nor a Melvin Maddocks will do very much to affect our use of that magnificent and mysterious thing we call language...
When Lerner decides to be original, his changes are always vulgar, simplistic, or downright perverse. The killing of Quilty doesn't take place in an eerie, Poe-like mansion, but at a party in Arizona in front of Quilty's freaky set of disciples, thus giving Lerner a chance for a rousing song-and-dance opening. The Enchanted Hunters Motel where Lolita seduces Humbert is changed to the Bed-D-Bv Motel, full of whores and Mr. and Mrs. John Smiths. And Lerner perversely places Humbert's final visit with the married, pregnant Lolita at the very end, enabling...