Word: vulgarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entitled The Greatest Story Never Told. The villains are the editors, the heroes us. In the meantime, I plead guilty to the following: in Casablanca, the Moor the merrier; at the Berlin Wall, the best things in life are flee; Adenauer is der Alter Ego; and Khrushchev was the Vulgar Boatman...
Loud, stagey, peripherally vulgar, Goldfarb celebrates himself and his environment in language so accurate, so lusty, so unmistakably public and engaging that no dissent from his accomplishment is possible...
...keep actors and actresses out of bed-on the screen. It seemed like a good idea at the time, for movies were as sex-conscious as the films coming out of Sweden today. But the production code launched an era of hypocritical leer; moviemakers often did their vulgar and ingenious best to be as provocative as possible, without violating the code's letter...
...rules. It was Valenti, in fact, who steered Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Alfie past the obsolete proscriptions of the Censorship Code. He is on the right track. While a liberalized code would not necessarily make movies better-and indeed might offer license to be merely vulgar or deliberately obscene-it would undoubtedly provide a better climate for serious moviemakers, who find the code of the '30s hypocritical...
...could be compared with Squire Western, or Mr. Micawber, or Lucien de Rubempre." The posthumous publication of parts of his own remarkable million-word Journal, moreover, only added to the popular caricature of him as a fop, a snob, and a frightened little poseur hiding behind bombast and a vulgar cocksureness...