Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hurry to make an all-emcompassing (and, in the end, annoyingly elliptical) statement about the artist's relationship to his work, fails to develop any of these to the fruition reached in Allen's earlier works. None of the characters (except Block, who turns out to be annoying, vulgar and uninteresting) are given enough attention to function in any mode other than one directly dependent on Allen's character...
LONDON: Dick Morris, where are you? Britain?s Royal Family, stung by criticism following Princess Diana?s death, has called in pollsters to help reposition itself in the hearts of its subjects. The Royals, whose hereditary rule was supposed to spare them the vulgar pursuits of politicians, has asked British political polling firm MORI to create focus groups designed to make Buckingham Palace?s work reflect the "interests and concerns" of its subjects. Their Highnesses seeking the counsel of soccer mums? Next thing they?ll want to give Britain a constitution...
...thoroughly enjoyed Hunter Thompson's story about his adventures driving up the California coast [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 10], even though he trashed my profession of astrology. What emerges in the piece is how the tenderness and love of a woman can tame the heart of even the most vulgar, nihilistic and wounded man as he realizes he's past his prime. Perhaps a competent spiritual astrologer could have validated Thompson's complex pathology 30 years ago. ROBERT P. BLASCHKE Nehalem...
...Raza was subsequently forwarded to many students, and it got the attention of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Association (HRRA) after Saldivar wrote in his La Raza message, "[T]here seem to be significant racial tensions (between) the Republicans on campus and Raza as evidenced by this guy's vulgar discourse...
...political process--which is also open, as the recent history of the NEA (not to mention history, period) proves, to philistines and worse. American Canvas reminds us that they are not all on the right. Critic Edward Rothstein put it tartly in the Times: "Washington liberals took a similarly vulgar view [to conservatives], focusing on their own versions of 'values' and treating art as a form of social therapy doled out to interest groups." We must be grateful for the rude health and increasing diversity of popular culture, which is both more accountable to the public and less...