Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Happily, the public will get its money's worth. Greeted by Hollywood wise guys with vulgar hoots ("Preminger's matzo opera . . . the first Jewish western"), Exodus nevertheless turns out-despite its duration (four hours, including intermission) and an irritating tendency to Zionist tirade-to be a serious, expert, frightening and inspiring political thriller...
...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. In one of the fall's best shows, Mike and Elaine in various skits leave tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human...
...come on stage in various roles and improvise, who glance at the life all around them and criticize, spend a great deal of their time being funny. By the end of the evening they have left tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They go at each other as a way of going at many things else: they are mamma and papa, or mother and son, or lover and mistress, or brother and sister, or monsieur and madame; they coil round each...
...script's attempts at shocking dialogue either fall flat or are pointlessly vulgar. There is, it should be noted, a difference between a shocking line and a vulgar one. In an effectively staged but poorly written suicide scene, young Rutland's speech alternates between teen-age hipness and Southern degeneracy. Rutland eyes Sandy Dennis (playing Millicent Bishop, soon to be a corpse) lecherously and leers, "We gone take it from the top." When Millie blurts out the news that she is pregnant, Rutland reacts all over the place: he babbles to himself, "Millie, Millicent, Millicentus..." He declares, "There...
Author Marquand's feelings about Lord Timothy are mixed. He grudgingly admires some qualities in a self-made Yankee who wasn't as silly as he seemed. But he admits that Dexter "suffered from senile concupiscence, he was ill-educated, and he was vulgar when drunk or sober." He sees him as a caricature of his period, but his dubious hero gives him a chance to revisit a time and a way of life that Marquand found more gracious and attractive than the "five o'clock shadow of mediocrity" that is creeping over Newburyport. It was only...