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Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...sums up nicely why Laugh-In is withheld from our five growing children. I won't have my family growing up thinking that it's cute to knock everything, and that they can buy a laugh with smut, double-entendres, or by making household words out of vulgar expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...time the hearings ended, the subcommittee may not have accomplished much in the way of preparing future legislation. But the yippies, in their effort to turn the hearings into a circus, proved more puerile and vulgar than satirical or funny. The gap between the two sides seemed limitless. As the yippies followed Rubin out in one of their periodic protests, South Carolina's Congressman Albert Watson asked Police Witness Grubisic in puzzlement, "How can you account for people following anyone like that?" Grubisic could only shake his head and reply: "I don't know, other than that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Costume Party | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...concrete palace is a Jewish real estate mogul named Arthur Goldman (Pleasence). Goldman has a jigsaw-puzzle personality. He wants only a "kosher" staff around him, yet he indulges in acridly anti-Semitic remarks. With bewildering rapidity, his accented spray of words veers from the clever to the vulgar to the mad. In a sense, Goldman is the kind of Angst-ridden creature a very bright student might have constructed after making a close study of how Harold Pinter fashions his characters. Since Shaw acted the mentally disturbed older brother in Pinter's The Caretaker, the influence is scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Act of Atonement | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Literally, spawn of turtles, a vulgar Chinese expression equivalent to bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Gold Boughs and Jade Leaves: The Red Junior League | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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