Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Repeating his original role as Pickering, Higgins' bachelor buddy, Robert Coote is delightful, and George Rose is "loverly" as Eliza's earthily vulgar father. The Lerner-Loewe score is incomparable, and the opening-night audience could scarcely wait for the first bar to applaud...
Jimmy Buffett's contribution to the New Country has been a sophisticated rowdiness, a wallowing in the sound of words, a degree of self-parody, and a subtly vulgar description of place and time and living. Buffett's worst moments are his most sentimental, when strings overwhelm his plain acoustic and pedal steel guitars, when he talks about his grandfather and going home, and gets trapped in the old cliches. These moments are more numerous on Buffett's later albums--as he runs out of youthful exuberance, maybe--but he greases his way out of most of the beartraps with...
Ambler shares some of his hero's flaws, and he is cynical enough to know it. Obviously he is much too cynical. There are some elements of imperial Britain in his attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide...
...government of the '60s was headed, for the first time, by conscious elitists--Bundy, the Rostows, McNamara, and Ball, many of whom the essayists in the Public Interest cite in their papers and served with on faculties. Rather than admit the failure of elitist political leadership cut off from vulgar opinion, the Public Interest scholars apparently wish to justify their original errors and retroactively combat the alienation they wrought. Not only was democracy wrong in the '60s, they tell us, it is also wrong...
...They had more than love-they had fun." So say the ads for Gable and Lombard. Unbelievably, there is more historical truth-which is to say, the barest acceptable minimum-in that simple adman's conceit than there is in the entire length of the vulgar, banal and finally repulsive movie it is designed to promote...