Word: vulgarizers
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...Nudity in and of itself is not objectionable. What is objectionable is the forum chosen for this vulgar display. Viewers could not exercise any choice in whether to view nudity or to allow their children to be exposed to it. A fitting punishment may be the suspension of MTV's license to broadcast for a year. Roger LeBlanc Westfield, Mass...
...Santa is not for everyone. The plot is full of holes, and its language is worse than it has to be. But it has some swell supporting performances and a lot of vulgar inventiveness, and best of all, it plugs into--and electrifies--the mostly unacknowledged grimness that lies just beneath our holiday cheer. Go ahead! Have yourself a wary little Christmas. --By Richard Schickel
...taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show a President who was vital, decisive and often vulgar. But it plays the audio over goofy re-enactment scenes using a look-alike, as if viewers are too dim to imagine one of history's most famous leaders talking on a telephone...
There has always been something desperately seductive about the U.S., something that European elites have regarded as a menace and a threat. To them, the U.S. was shallow, vulgar, uncultured, crass, inauthentic, materialistic, naive, venal and degenerate. At the same time, however, they could not deny that it was somehow irresistible and dangerously attractive—particularly to millions of Europe’s masses, who voted with their feet in hopes of attaining something in America that eluded them at home...
...sleazy, vulgar and like nothing I'd ever seen before," says Orzolek, 24. Onstage she flashes her underwear, twirls around like a demented cheerleader and eviscerates plush toys. Since that first frock, there has been a series of arty, zany creations, including the "shrimp dress," a gaudy taffeta and tulle ball gown that Karen O turned into shrimp salad on stage in London this year. "That's the best thing that can happen," says Joy. "It's beyond fashion...