Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Globatron, a giant conglomerate run by a terrible-tempered tyrant everyone calls "L.W."-a woman, of course. Globatron is about to spend $125 million on a new ad campaign to promote Wilmington beer. Since women are the beer drinkers in this upside-down world (beer is considered too vulgar for men), Globatron has created the Wilmington Woman, the ideal consumer. The only problem is-shades of Myra Breckinridge-that the Wilmington Woman (Linda Gray) turns out to be a transsexual. While the board of Globatron considers this staggering information, the Wilmington Woman is kidnaped by some Okies...
Pont-Aven, the setting for much of this loosely structured, deliberately vulgar French comedy, is the seacoast town where Paul Gauguin settled temporarily after abandoning his job and family in the 1880s. The hero of The Cookies is a present-day painter who also throws over a boring wife and job and moves to Pont-Aven. One major difference between the two men, however, is that Gauguin became in his rebellion a leading light of the French avantgarde. The hero of Cookies, both as a man and a painter, is largely obsessed with female buttocks. He is an artist...
HOLLYWOOD OF THE 1930s is a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty, and Monroe Stahr, boy wonder, is at her service. Stahr's business is making pictures, transmuting the dreams of Depression-deadened America into vendable celluloid. His is an Horatio Alger story with an F. Scott Fitzgerald twist, a saga of material success rooted in romantic illusion. For a while, Stahr can have his cake and sell it too; but the crisis comes when he tries to shape his own life in the image of the movies by snatching happiness from an ill-fated love affair. For Fitzgerald, success...
...Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise to go for the vulgar and the sensational, then to avoid responsibility by claiming to give the public what it wants...
...film's technical aspects complement the carefully understated acting and direction. Haskell Wexler's cinematography is skillful and at times breathtakingly beautiful, but it is never vulgar or flashy. The sets are simple and the props few; Ashby avoids mounting exhibits of United Artists' vast collection of antique furniture. Bound For Glory is accurate but not pedantic, entertaining but not slick. Like Woody's songs, Bound For Glory is deceptively simple; the surface simplicity serves only to mask the care and skill involved in its production. Besides, as Pete Seeger said in his forward to the book, "Any damn fool...