Word: vulgarizers
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Nearly 700 years ago, Dante broke with tradition by writing about such a weighty subject (i. e., salvation and the Christian afterlife) in the "low" style of Comedy; and, in doing so, produced a work in the vulgar tongue of his native Florence. That bold spirit of adventure now awaits the contemporary English reader, just as it once did the trecento Florentine...
...ourselves hiding in the dim past. There has always been a kind of awkward exuberance in the way this story looks life straight in the eye and sweetly, soberly embraces its basic experiences and emotions. It is this unspoken moral strength, which is not to be confused with the vulgar, politicized moralism of our time, that permits it to transcend its gentilities of expression and its lack of structural grace. And grants this lovely cast, these intelligent and passionate filmmakers, the year's unlikeliest triumph...
Similarly, an epsiode featuring a flashback of a busty English teacher, also played by Hanify, who makes a lot of puns on "long" and "hard," is too cliched and vulgar to be funny...
...hand it to William H. Walsh. The guy has guts. Last week, claiming he was outraged by a display of "vulgar" art at City Hall, Walsh brazenly walked away with what he considered the exhibition's most disturbing contents...
...plain, simple, vulgar," said city council member William H. Walsh...