Word: vulgars
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...twirl their mustachios and scream: "How now, me proud beauty!" But within his conventions Kurosawa is a realist, and when he does a caricature he does it in acid. The Bad Sleep Well is not quite so strong as his strongest pictures, but it has the vulgar energy, the cutting relevance, the mortal moral seriousness of first-rate journalism...
Considering the vulgar travesty it is, Oliver! is not as bad a show as it ought to be. The archetypal force of the Dickens story still faintly magnetizes the stage. Fagin is a kind of storybook witch, but the power of witches exists to be broken. Oliver is destined for storybook transformation-the ill-born pauper turned well-born prince, the maltreated underling who bests his oppressors, the orphan boy who finds a father and a home. Every boy who ever had a nightmare or a dream, every adult who ever yearned for renewal or rebirth, feels the pull...
...Christmas were a vaudeville actress, she would have long ago retired. Her simpering ways and importuning mien endear her to no audience but the vulgar, and when she dares to look up boldiy and speak out, it is with tongue of brass and not of gold...
Crump is aware of his novel's short comings. When you're writing such things, he says, "how can you keep from sounding vulgar?" Despite this, Crump is writing another book, about a Negro prizefighter. Not much in Burn, Killer, Burn! suggests that it will be even a fair book. But any one who has come as far as Paul Crump is a hard man to bet against...
Unlike the vulgar, insipid plays that have recently cashed in on Jewish themes and situations, the show that opened at the Biltmore last night honestly aims at drama. But in outlining the fiscal and marital vagaries of a garment manufacturer, Mr. Leslie Weiner doesn't quite reach...