Word: vulgars
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...Newsweek story is just the latest installment in the mainstream media's attempt to figure out our generation. Why this insatiable curiosity? Perhaps because our parents are scared of us. They see us riding the wave of an increasingly violent, vulgar culture that threatens to engulf everything in its path...
...equivalent of say, Mort Sahl. And again, it's because of who his targets are. Yes, it's identifiably satire, but the point I was trying to make last night is that when you aim satire at powerless groups it is really not only cruel, it's pathetically vulgar...
SEXUAL HARASSMENT (Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.) The Question: Must a complainant prove that vulgar and sexually suggestive conduct by a boss is "psychologically damaging" or merely "offensive to a reasonable person" ? Prediction: The court, and Ginsburg, will opt for the latter, more liberal, standard. Watch: Clarence Thomas' vote...
...videos, cookie-dough Haagen-Dazs, Harvey Wallbangers, Beauty and the Beast trinkets, tickets to a Madame Tussaud's waxworks -- and doesn't involve pornography, switchblades or free- base pipes, the powers that be want it on the new 42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name...
...Bochco negotiated an unusual agreement with ABC over the crude vernacular he could use on the show. According to that confidential document, among the 30 or so prime-time words acceptable to ABC are such bizarre semi-obscenities as mother jumper and humphead, as well as a vulgar term for feces and a vulgar term for female genitalia...