Word: vulgarly
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Giulio Romano was so well known in his time that he is the only painter mentioned in any of Shakespeare's plays. Famous, and rather vulgar. If Raphael was the epitome of grace among artists of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long...
...swathing for success in somber tones, slender stripes and severe lines, it seems that women are once again letting part of it, at least, hang out in pseudo-animal skins that have a kind of tacky charm -- or, as Bruce Binder, Macy's Northeast Fashion Director, puts it, "vulgar chic...
MALCOLM MCLAREN AND THE BOOTZILLA ORCHESTRA: WALTZ DARLING (Epic). Berserk and beautiful: classical waltz music funked up for dancing by rock's baddest bad boy. McLaren is like a compact-disc version of Ken Russell -- funny, vulgar and endlessly inventive...
...jail, go to Genoa and get on a ship bound for freedom. His adviser mentions the name Billy Rose, which Harry hears as Bellarosa. Only later does he realize that the person who has organized and funded the network that saved his life is a famous, indefatigably vulgar and flamboyant Broadway producer...
...turned out, no. At a Sigma Alpha Epsilon convention in Cincinnati last summer, Rothschild created such a vulgar scene complaining to the hotel desk that his fraternity brothers decided to check into his background. They learned that another guy named Rothschild had pulled off some funny business at the SAE chapter in Berkeley years before. After they demanded that he prove his identity, Maurice skipped town. He showed up in Bronxville, N.Y., to pick up his belongings from a rented room and has not been sighted since...