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Moreover, the Vatican apparently believes that a portrait of a Pope is ipso facto a religious image; this illusion has stuffed the Borgia Apartments with a plethora of weak, vulgar bronzes of recent pontiffs. The only distinguished image of a Pope in the collection is one of Francis Bacon's variations on Velásquez's Innocent X. The gift of Italian Automobile Tycoon Gianni Agnelli, it sits, mouth open in a feral and silent snarl, glaring at the sacramental kitsch around it. But that it should be hung as "religious" art is unconscious black humor...
...nearly 40 years, in journalism, lectures, and radio and TV appearances, Muggeridge has been decrying everything that he finds fraudulent or ridiculous-i.e., virtually everything. Ours is a vulgar and destructive age, he has instructed us. Our arts and literature are a heap of rubble. Our inner Lives are sown with salt. Even now that Muggeridge has converted to an idiosyncratic Christianity (as described in his 1969 Jesus Rediscovered), his cup of wormwood runneth over...
...game suffers more than it ever did from its bloodied-oaf aficionados-the rough, vulgar, vandalistic, stupid, even murderous. British supporters have become notorious for their train ripping, window smashing, bovver booting, bottle fights. Recent British fan conduct in Holland led to Times editorials and high-level apologies on behalf of the whole British nation. Volatile Latins, though less ebullient than the stolid Anglo-Saxons, have been known to bite ears off referees...
...blatantness of Pirsig's borrowings, his Americanizing of Aristotle and the Zen archer will appear vulgar to some readers. To me the borrowings are signs of a vital writer, maybe a myth-maker. The "good mechanic" resonates in my own experience; he brings to mind a good friend, a mechanic and scientist...
...fairy tale allied itself with other types of mass culture that saved it from cuteness and trite morality throughout the Victorian era. It never joined forces with another persistent and repressed literary genre, pornography--which this book terms "the ultimate cultural ghetto"--but it did identify with "vulgar" elements like spiritual mediums, Nursery nonsense and thrillers...