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...exotic to Harvard students, the kind of thing that they don’t know and only rarely imagine,” muses Slavitt, a Yale graduate. “Much of the purpose of going to places like Harvard and Yale is to obviate the need for such vulgar encounters...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slavitt’s Memoir Mired in the “Blue State Blues” | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...this is a key problem throughout the book: Slavitt regards candidate-to-voter contact—the core of our political culture—as “sordid” and “vulgar...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Slavitt’s Memoir Mired in the “Blue State Blues” | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...sample of etymologist Eric Partridge's "vulgar dictionary" contained the commonest four-letter words, but they were masked with asterisks. The fun came in definitions of such obscure but piquant phrases as Back Gammon Player, Brother of the Gusset, Fire Ship, Irish Whist, Nogging House, Pushing School, Scotch Warming Pan and Whiffles. I suppose they might have raised a giggle from the youth of Olde England or 60s Middle America, but kids of the latter era were getting naughtier word play from Ian Fleming. Remember Pussy Galore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Favorite Pornographer | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...moose head into the tidy little craftsman bungalow inhabited by his best friend, Carl (Matt Dillon) and his new bride, Molly (Kate Hudson). He means to be helpful, but continually screws up in ways that are meant to be funny, but are, in fact, so stupid and vulgar that I can't bear to write them down here. Suffice it to say that they generally involve bodily needs and functions that disgust his hosts - not to mention us, watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Owen Wilson Overstays His Welcome | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...summertime and the living is vulgar over at the multiplex. Since Sandler is Click's producer, you have to believe that it is tailored entirely to his demands. So almost before you know it, the movie is offering the mother of all stupid - is there any other kind? - flatulence jokes. And bimbo jokes. And sexual performance jokes. And, especially, horny dog jokes. Eventually, they give up on "writing" and call in the special-effects technicians, who literally inflate Sandler to the point where you want to turn your eyes from the screen. In short, the movie is all about pleasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicking Off Adam Sandler | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

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