Word: vulgarizes
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...bathing suits that would remain on for a millisecond were they ever deployed for actual bathing--that typifies the new breed of men's magazines, among them Gear and Maxim. The latter has become so popular with its twentysomething male audience that it recently spawned an even more vulgar offshoot called Stuff. Stuff endorses products like Belcher soda and flaunts cover lines that leave no doubt about how far the magazine will go to capitalize on feelings of hostility men may possess toward the opposite sex--"A Grizzly Tale: 'I Saw My Wife Get Killed by a Bear...
...dribbles in gratuitous allusions to the action-figure world he begat in his youth: Jawas cheer "Utidi!" and sand people fire on the racers like juvenile delinquents. Jabba the Hutt rolls out to preside over the race, as if Lucas' faith in his audience did not extend beyond their vulgar appreciation for references to the previous movies...
...might ask ourselves if we, too, are guilty of making the hasty and vulgar variety of generalizations that are the pundits' bread and butter. Are we sometimes so eager, for example, to complete an essay as quickly as possible that we engage in merely superficial analysis? We appreciate insights, for sure, but do we always care to devote our own time and efforts to develop them on our own, especially when hurried, overly broad generalities will suffice...
...Poor men. A woman can bash men as loudly as she wants (as recent endpapers have so aptly demonstrated) or make as many vulgar statements as she wishes, while men stand by stifled by the gods of political correctness. The one female professor I ve had at Harvard peppered her lectures with innuendoes that would have crucified a male professor. For centuries of oppression, we can say whatever whenever and blame our lack of complete happiness and all inadequacies of society...
Book and magazine publishers often follow a hypocritical convention of burying the scoop deep in the text--to signal that they're not really about anything so vulgar and transitory as news. Then they launch a publicity barrage, invariably including a press release written in traditional journalistic "pyramid style"--that is, with the scoop on top, where it belongs. ("ALBRIGHT SAYS CLINTON NEVER TOUCHED HER. In her just published memoir, Woman of the World, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denies reports in former White House press secretary Mike McCurry's recent memoir, The Soul of Discretion, that President Clinton...