Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarrassed by excellence: the liberals who roll that stone of Sisyphus known as equality. In their search for a standard of equality, these new egalitarians never dare to look up. They seek the lowest common denominator and establish it as the norm so that no one, however squalid or vulgar, need be left out of the American Dream...
...Then, a "high White House official" was quoted in Time magazine to the effect that "the name of the game (in the White House) is who can screw the Post the most." (A "high Time official" later identified to me the White House source of this vulgar little gem as Mr. William Safire, then a special assistant to President Nixon, now a columnist for The New York Times...
...goes all thought of standards, judgment and improved tastes. But what a patronizing way to enshrine equality! For example, the real claim of the blues to be taken seriously when set against contemporary classical music (so much of which is technically accomplished but derivative and sterile) turns on the vulgar vitality, beauty and originality of the music, and not on the "different socioeconomic and educational circumstances" of its performers or its audience...
...such qualms. In the film's most egregious invention, he hires a sound truck to tour white districts, lecturing about his grievances and their indifference. At which point the movie's insistence on reducing a complex character to a single, simple-minded dimension becomes too vulgar to bear. Ironically, the people who made Conrack commit the same errors as the educational system their hero rebelled against: they too distrust and patronize the intelligence of those they would instruct...
...fitting that Hyams has not chosen to include many. Busting does make a fairly important point: it is as much life inside the station house as out on the street that grinds cops down, makes them petty and vicious. Hyams shows this deadening process with a raucous, vulgar vitality. Busting is a pointedly lowdown movie about lowlife...