Word: vulgarizes
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...WILD STUNT SHOW is a heroic attempt to revive that much forgotten American art form--the vaudeville revue. When popular country singers warble about romantic "onenight-stands" we tend to forget that they are talking about those makeshift, vulgar, amateurish debacles played in cheap downtown auditoriums that we, growing up in the days of its decline, have come to associate with the word vaudeville. We tend to forget, too, that such modern idols as the Marx Brothers and Jack Benny all started like that, painfully and miserably, travelling on second-class night coach, starving and playing to jeering audiences...
...whom he described as "a bally crook" and a "little swine." In May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him Minister of Transport, but Reith's satisfaction was undermined by bitterness that the more important Aircraft Production Ministry was given to Lord Beaverbrook. "To no one is the vulgar designation shit more appropriately applied" is the way Reith tidily sums up Beaverbrook...
...good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia is a healthy rehabilitation of national symbols, a growing out of adolescent shame and embarrassment about "home" and a gradual realization that what is commonly thought of as uncultured, vulgar (i.e., new and unEuropean) is exactly what is unique about America...
...ocean. He uses a combination of schematic and symbolic lines, actual color photographs, and a shimmering plastic called Rowlux, that in any other context--the plastic body of a comb or a brush, a drug-store display, a hair-salon wall--would be called vulgar. But here it is uncanny in its hypnotic approximation of nature...
...hard to understand why anyone would bother to make Smile at all-let alone with loving, modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring out the worst in everyone: sponsors, contestants, audiences. This is not exactly big news. If it were, Bert Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining...