Mr. Trump is a vulgarian in the way he tweets and sometimes talks.
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So, probably, is the president of the United States, a Twitter-addled vulgarian.
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Nope, I'll take the personally corrupt short-fingered vulgarian, and won't apologize for it.
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Editor Graydon Carter hit a nerve with Trump by calling him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in February of 1988, and the magazine used the insult repeatedly—Spy referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" eleven times in the ensuing eight years.
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Yet Mr. Trump's supporters, as we've seen, do not care if he is a vulgarian.
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Spy magazine, which pinned the phrase "short-fingered vulgarian" on Donald J. Trump, was born.
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Donald Trump and his tiny vulgarian fingers are crushing all opponents — Republican and Democratic — on Twitter.
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But the feud over whether Trump is a "short-fingered vulgarian" has now lasted nearly 30 years.
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"They think you're a vulgarian, that you don't have that class to run this country," O'Reilly said.
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He was actually reassuring his base that he remains the vulgarian who consistently incites our worst instincts.
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And so I think we were just amused by the idea of calling him a short-fingered vulgarian.
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Trump has famously been defensive of his hands since Spy magazine first called him a "short-fingered Vulgarian" in 1988.
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Coons once called Trump "a thin-skinned reality TV star" and "a Cheeto-faced short-fingered vulgarian," according to reports.
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As he alarms and exhausts, the Short-Fingered Vulgarian deserves this credit at least: We're all on our toes now.
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When Jimmy Fallon ruffled Trump's hair during the campaign, it was treated as a hideous breach, normalizing the invading vulgarian.
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The very-hip-at-the-time Spy magazine relentlessly trolled him as a "short-fingered vulgarian," and it truly bothered him.
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Jones is an intellect, not a vulgarian, and Jomama is in part an homage to the transformative power of black style.
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" Penn was referring to comments made about Trump by the satirical Spy magazine, which often called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian.
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Carter last year said his description of the billionaire as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine sparked a decades-long feud.
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"You're dealing with a tiny-fingered vulgarian who loves to tweet crazy things as his way of getting policy done," Penn said.
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Twenty-five years ago, Vanity Fair editor Grayson Carter called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian," and to this day it rankles Trump.
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Most importantly, we still haven't answered the question: Have Trump's short, vulgarian fingers known the loving touch of a computer mouse or keyboard?
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" The exchange stems from an insult lobbed the editors of the now defunct Spy magazine years ago, calling Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian.
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He's also got a sit-down with Vanity Fair editor Grayden Carter, who famously called him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in the 1980s.
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The truth is that he needed the demands of popular storytelling, and even the meddling of vulgarian producers, to do his best work.
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In his decades-long attempt to play the sophisticated vulgarian, Prince has finally come up with something all his own: Multicolored Prozac Expressionism.
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Roman, who pretends to be a clownish vulgarian, is actually quite shrewd, but so emotionally stunted that he can only express intimacy onanistically.
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" One of The Donald's oldest feuds is with Spy magazine, which in 1988 famously described the real estate mogul as a "short-fingered vulgarian.
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Anyway, we tried out various ones on Trump and none of them took, really, until 1988 when we called him a short-fingered vulgarian.
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The Trump character is named Gary "Green" Gwynplaine, a wealthy vulgarian, born with green hair, who likes to refer to himself as the Joker.
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Euron Greyjoy, the salty vulgarian seafarer, surprised Dany's fleet and shot down her dragon Rhaegal with giant arrows fired from giant crossbows atop his ships.
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Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in the pages of Spy magazine.
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Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a 'short-fingered vulgarian' in the pages of Spy magazine.
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There was a Christian fish, and right next to the fish was a Donald Trump sticker that displayed the "short-fingered vulgarian" yelling at Hillary Clinton.
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Carter once infamously called Trump "a short-fingered vulgarian" in a 1988 article in Spy magazine, an insult that apparently still haunts Trump to this day.
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It is little wonder why Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter had already conferred the ignoble title of "short-fingered vulgarian" on Trump over 25 years ago.
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As Eater wrote this week, the two men have been feuding since the '80s, when Carter referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.
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"Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a 'short-fingered vulgarian' in the pages of Spy magazine," Carter wrote.
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INGRAHAM: He was a vulgarian, let&aposs face it, he thought as George Will, Trump is a horrible vulgrarian, he did believe that, let&aposs just be honest.
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His hands Graydon Carter's description of Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in a 3793 Spy magazine article came back to haunt him during the 2379 presidential election.
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The source of Rubio's comment refers back to a 1988 Spy magazine article that called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian," perhaps insulting both his tongue and his manhood.
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I know you've told this story before, but I'm going to ask again: Who decided and why did you decide to name Donald Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian"?
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"Oh my goodness, I guess that's what it was for," Trump said, according to Giuliani, incredibly making the First Vulgarian sound more like Mike Pence or James Comey.
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Andersen also has experience with comedy — in the 1980s, he served as a founding editor of Spy magazine, which called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian," according to the Times.
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But even the short-fingered vulgarian apparently has limits on how far he'll go: Trump initially tweeted that Cruz "illegaly stole" the caucus, but that missive was promptly deleted.
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And you can't do it as Jeb Bush did, where you assume for too long that people will see Trump as a vainglorious vulgarian without you pointing it out.
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Vanity Fair: Glossy monthly that has long been a thorn in Mr. Trump's side; its recently retired editor, Graydon Carter, coined the epithet "short-fingered vulgarian" for the president.
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They should focus on the big picture: Trump is doing such an amazing job as a vulgarian and villain, it would be a shame to get in the way.
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Think of all the bizarre feuds Trump has gotten himself into: Ghazala Khan, random fire marshals, a woman with a baby at his rally, the "short-fingered vulgarian" incident.
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All O'Donnell had to do, really, was call Trump a short-fingered vulgarian and she would have hit every square on the "how to piss off Donald Trump" bingo card.
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The presidential election presented a stark choice, between the first woman president and a "short-fingered vulgarian" with a long history of saying—and doing—openly racist and sexist things.
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Greenberg suggests that Clinton erred by focusing too much on multiculturalism at the expense of class, and by trying to discredit Donald Trump as a vulgarian rather than a plutocrat.
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Greenberg suggests that Clinton erred by focusing too much on multiculturalism at the expense of class, and by trying to discredit Donald Trump as a vulgarian rather than a plutocrat.
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The size of his hands have been a notorious sticking point for the president, dating back to 1988 when journalist Graydon Carter called him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.
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The president-elect took to Twitter Thursday morning to blast the journalist who notably once referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in the pages of now-defunct Spy magazine.
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Washington, D.C. Dems must face reasons for losses From Paul Bloustein The Democratic Party is wounded and full of self-doubt, all at the small hands of a Big Apple vulgarian.
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Long after pundits predicted his demise, the short-fingered vulgarian is leading nationally as well as in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though he's inspired a lot of animosity along the way.
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In the '80s, Eater reports, Carter began referring to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in SPY magazine, and kept up the epithets when he moved to Vanity Fair in the '90s.
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Imagine, for instance, that you're one of the many churchgoing voters — Catholic, evangelical and Mormon — repelled by Trump's vulgarian style, his bigotry and misogyny, his embodiment of an essentially post-religious right.
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Euron Greyjoy: Since Game of Thrones has been on the air, only two people have ever killed a dragon: The all-powerful and seeming unstoppable Night King, and the seafaring vulgarian Euron Greyjoy.
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Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter originated the meme that Trump has tiny hands back in 1988 by calling him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine, a claim that got under Trump's skin.
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Spy famously referred to Donald Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" as far back as 1988, and its relaunch this morning features a fake ad for "vulgicene," a cure for small hands syndrome.
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How does a devoted evangelical Christian serve a foulmouthed, thrice-married vulgarian who boasts of grabbing women by their private parts and paid hush money to a porn star alleging an extramarital affair?
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The size of Trump's hands has been a subject of mockery since Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, first mocked the president by referring to him as a "short fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.
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On a recent episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, the host of WNYC's Studio 360, Kurt Andersen, talked about labeling Donald Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian" at the magazine he co-founded, Spy.
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The humorous quips about Trump's alleged tiny digits spans decades, all the way back to when Spy Magazine relentlessly took shots at the real estate developer, calling him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in 1988.
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Katherine Kingsley doesn't have anywhere near the profile or résumé of Ms. Smith, but the fast-rising actress excelled as a high-style vulgarian in the recent sequence of Harold Pinter one-acts here.
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But they didn't, and so the Republican Party, a sizable percentage of which not only doesn't want Trump as its standard bearer, but actively and vocally loathes him, is stuck with the short-fingered vulgarian.
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Like others raised in that environment, I too was stunned by the evangelical support of Donald Trump, a thrice-married vulgarian who has admitted to multiple affairs and only venerates himself and his vast fortune.
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After the last presidential election, Buckley's son, Christopher, took to Vanity Fair to argue that his father's politics had nothing to do with those of the outer-borough vulgarian who had landed in the White House.
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After a gangbuster opening weekend last February, "Deadpool" has earned $363 million domestically, and is now the world's highest-grossing R-rated movie ever — not bad for a comic-book vulgarian who wasn't exactly widely known.
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The first, subtle piece of cognitive dissonance comes from witnessing Jim Delos amid his morning routine in one of those sterile, future-bourgeois spaces that would seem antithetical to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking vulgarian like him.
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While it all began in the 1980s when then Spy Magazine's Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian," Trump's concern with his hand size extended all the way into the 2016 campaign.
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The short fingered vulgarian bashed Clinton and Bloomberg, and went so far as to chastise four-star Marine general John Allen who, in his DNC speech Thursday, questioned whether Trump had what it took to become Commander in Chief.
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It's no easy feat to be the most thin-skinned man in American politics these days, especially given that the country is run by a short-fingered vulgarian who compulsively tweets about every real and perceived slight against him.
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Graydon Carter's long-running feud with the "short-fingered vulgarian", as he so pithily put it, recently resurfaced in the pages of Vanity Fair, where a waiter at the Trump Grill was quoted discussing the size of his bosses' digits.
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And he differed with such Fox commentators as Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham as he found himself among the increasingly isolated "Never Trumpers," Republicans regarding the real estate baron and former "Apprentice" star as a vulgarian unfit for the presidency.
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Who was in the room: Conde Nast Artistic Director and Vogue EIC Anna Wintour, Vanity Fair EIC Graydon Carter, who coined the term "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy Magazine, New Yorker Editor David Remnick, Kellyanne Conway, Hope Hicks, and Michael Flynn.
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The newsletter, Mr. Carter said, is "designed to live in a Trump-free world" (he has been an antagonist of the president since the 1980s, when Spy magazine, which Mr. Carter co-founded, branded Mr. Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian").
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Oliver hit him pretty much everywhere: for being a liar, for being a racist, for being a fraud, for being a flip-flopper, for being a short-fingered vulgarian, for being thin-skinned, for being corrupt—for being Donald Trump, in other words.
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Most recently, Trump called Carter "sloppy" in a tweet after the editor revealed that the presidential hopeful has been sending the editor pictures of his hands for decades in an effort to disprove Carter's claim that Trump is a "short-fingered vulgarian."
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Another one of Trump's quirks is that he's quick to anger and holds grudges deeply — after one reporter described him as a "short fingered vulgarian," he would periodically send the reporter photos with his hands circled in gold Sharpie for years afterward.
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And last October, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter claimed that Trump has been sending him photos of his hands for nearly 30 years to prove his fingers are properly proportioned after Carter called him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in an essay for Spy magazine.
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It was strange, though, to have the victorious Vulgarian spewing bile right across the Grand River from the resting place of Gerald Ford, whose museum here offers words associated with Ford that seem quaint by Trump standards: Trustworthy, Respectful, Team Player, Compassion, Steady Leader.
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Jon Friedman, who covered Wall Street at Bloomberg News from 1993 to 1999, said that many employees back then viewed Mike Bloomberg not as a vulgarian, but as a symbol of the hypercompetitive Wall Street culture that he actively tried to promote within his company.
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The support for and opposition to Mr. Trump often seems tied less to his specific policy prescriptions than to evaluations of who he is — a fighter taking on elites on behalf of those left behind or a vulgarian narcissist with no respect for the rule of law.
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When the DSM-V cites "antagonism" as a personal trait necessary for a diagnosis of "antisocial personality disorder," Hamblin cites Trump's extended feuds with journalists such as Fox's Megyn Kelly, BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins (who dared to call the Mar-a-Lago hotel "slightly dated"), and Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter (co-coiner of "short-fingered vulgarian").
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Beloved by rank-and-file New Yorkers and despised by media-elite blowhards — most notably the "short-fingered vulgarian" currently grasping at the country's nuclear codes — the magazine was co-founded by Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter (now editor of Vanity Fair), who delighted in the sort of ego-puncturing they thought the city's preening glitterati so sorely deserved.
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He was the "short-fingered vulgarian" of Spy and the inspiration for the bully-villain of "Back to the Future Part II." But on TV he had swagger: in 1985, he feuded with Mayor Ed Koch on "60 Minutes"; he was a sharp-dressed landlord on the Judith Krantz miniseries "I'll Take Manhattan"; he appeared briefly in a 20043 "This Old House" episode about Trump Tower.
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"It should come as no surprise that polls have consistently shown that Mr. Kasich has a better chance of winning in November than the vulgarian New York developer with a frighteningly poor grasp of foreign policy or the Princeton debater and preposterous Ronald Reagan poseur with a demonstrated inability to work with others, Democratic or Republican, and who promises more of the same if elected," the piece said.
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These are not re-enacted, but almost everything he tells from grade school on is, by a cast of actors that includes Jeff Garlin as the blustery, vulgarian Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman; Dana Carvey as Johnny Carson; and the real-life Bond girl Jane Seymour (she played Solitaire in "Live and Let Die" (1973), Roger Moore's first turn as 007) as Lazenby's agent in 1960s Swinging London.
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That is, aspects of the plotline are revealed in its lyric. In the song the vulgarian spies discuss their plans to steal the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.
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It is sung in the Vulgarian dungeons by Jeremy and Jemima, just before "Chitty Prayer", which is a short reprise of the title song. It is also not heard in the movie.
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The Stooges themselves try to escape but end up running into a Vulgarian prison. As the firing squad is setting up for the Stooges' execution, Curly requests one last smoke, leading to him pulling out a cigar the length of a hero sandwich. After he finishes it, the firing squad open fire, but the trio run off with their heads inside their shirts. Three Vulgarian officers watch a demonstration of their country's new ray gun which can fire other guns remotely.
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Taruskin also criticizes the ideas of measuring Schoenberg's value as a composer in terms of his influence on other artists, the overrating of technical innovation, and the restriction of criticism to matters of structure and craft while derogating other approaches as vulgarian .
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In 2004 he campaigned against the threatened closure of the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, calling Mayor James Hahn's budget team "vulgarian accountants and hack bureaucrats" and "gray-suited Philistines."Greene, Robert. "Art in jeopardy: Not a pretty picture for Mayor Hahn" , LA Weekly, 17 March 2004. Retrieved 9 September 2007.
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Hill had a difficult relationship with the Director-General of the BBC, Hugh Greene, and he eventually forced Greene to resign in 1969. Greene later described Hill as a "vulgarian". He had a quieter relationship with Greene's successor, Charles Curran. He retired from the BBC in 1972 and died in 1989, aged 85.
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Ruswa was an excellent example of a dual literary personality – an earnest-minded Dr. Jekyll burning the midnight oil writing sublime prose, working out a system of Urdu shorthand or studying the movements of the stars – and the vulgarian Mr. Hyde, doing the rounds of the city's brothels and churning out cheap trash to bring in much needed filthy lucre.
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Rothenburg has appeared in several films, notably fantasies. It was the inspiration for the village in the 1940 Walt Disney movie Pinocchio. It was the location for the Vulgarian village scenes in the 1968 family movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'. It is sometimes mistaken as the town at the end of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971); that town was Nördlingen.
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Musician, in a 1993 issue, described the song as "New Age lull". Robert Christgau, in his review of Cyberpunk, commented: "So "Adam in Chains," which after a long spoken intro devolves into what a vulgarian might take for his latest love-gone-bad rant, is in fact "a prayer for the tomorrow people and power junkies."" AXS.com later featured the song as one of Idol's "five most underrated songs" in a retrospective look back over Idol's recording career.
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Arthur returns from a trip to Greece with Pearl (Maureen Stapleton), a high-spirited and more "normal" woman, whom he intends to marry. His daughters are disturbed that Arthur would disregard Eve's suicide attempt and find another woman, to whom Joey refers as a "vulgarian". Arthur and Pearl marry at Arthur and Eve's former summer home, with Renata, Joey and Flyn in attendance. Later in the evening, Joey lashes out at Pearl when Pearl accidentally breaks one of Eve's vases.
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"Think Vulgar" is a song created especially for the stage musical production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was written by Robert and Richard Sherman in 2001 and premiered at the London Palladium on April 16, 2002. It was subsequently replaced by "Act English" a year later. The song is sung in a private moment when the Vulgarian spies determine their strategy of deceit by which they will obtain possession of Caractacus Potts' invention, the car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Urban Council – 1996– Apart from the occasional vulgarian and philistine, Ko Lo-chuen had moved up the social ladder to play middle-class fathers. However, his characters were marked by shrewd proclivities: they were scheming, stubborn, lascivious, who were often blundering idiots as well. In Young, Pregnant, and Unmarried, he was a blundering father; in Diary of a Chauvinistic Husband, Part Two, he was a lascivious old man searching for a concubine; in The Student Prince, he was a snob of a parent.
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Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 13. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that "it becomes painfully evident that Russell, the Great Vulgarian of contemporary filmmaking, should have quit while he was ahead, sort of. A boudoir-farce approach to the life and legend of Liszt would have been trivial-minded, but harmlessly trivial-minded compared to the collection of obscene fantasies and gassy profundities Russell resorts to after his muse runs out of comic ideas."Arnold, Gary (24 October 1975).
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"The Roses of Success" is a song and musical number from the popular 1968 motion picture Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the film, it is sung when Grandpa Potts (played by Lionel Jeffries) is caught in the Vulgarian inventors' workshop and is forced to modify a car that floats or face the consequences. The other imprisoned inventors sing this song in the hopes that they might cheer up the despondent Grandpa. He is cheered up and sings along, but in the end the car collapses.
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Some lists are based on more subjective criteria and Mount Muir is included in the Sierra Peaks Section list, the Western States Climbers list. and the Vulgarian Ramblers, 13,800-Footers of the Contiguous USA list. The easiest approach is from the John Muir Trail just north of its junction with the Mount Whitney Trail in Sequoia National Park. The trail passes very near the summit and the climb involves a short stretch of difficult scrambling up the steep, boulder-strewn, western slope to the summit block, ().
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Andersen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Westside High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he edited the Harvard Lampoon. In 1986 with E. Graydon Carter he co-founded Spy magazine, which they sold in 1991; it continued publishing until 1998. While writing for Spy, Andersen (with Carter) coined the notable insult "short-fingered vulgarian" for future United States President Donald Trump.. He has been a writer and columnist for New York ("The Imperial City"), The New Yorker ("The Culture Industry"), and Time ("Spectator").
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The story is set in an otherwise-unnamed duchy in Italy, ruled by Duke Alphonso. As the story opens, the Duke and his son and heir Prince Vincentio are both in love with the beautiful Margaret, the daughter of Earl Lasso. Alphonso's plan to marry the girl (though he is much too old for her) is supported by his court favourite Medice, a figure roundly disliked by the other characters. Medice is considered a poseur and vulgarian; though he masquerades as a great lord, he admits that he is illiterate.
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When the officers try to turn on the radio, Curly pulls out a large harmonica and begins playing, while strumming the remaining wires like a harp and banging inside the radio with xylophone mallets. The officers discover Curly, who jumps out of a window to escape. Moe and Larry trap the officers' heads in the window while Curly hits the officers in the head with his mallets. The Stooges are now dressed in the Vulgarian officers' uniforms and end up in a local cafe, in which Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
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Some of its features attempted to present the darker side of celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Steven Seagal, Martha Stewart, and especially, the real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump. Pejorative epithets of celebrities, e.g., "Abe 'I'm Writing As Bad As I Can' Rosenthal," "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump," "churlish dwarf billionaire Laurence Tisch," "bum-kissing toady Arthur Gelb," "bosomy dirty-book writer Shirley Lord," and "former fat girl Dianne Brill" became a Spy trademark. In the summer of 1992, the publication ran a story on President George H.W. Bush's alleged extramarital affairs.
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Afterwards, safely back at her family mansion, Truly declares her developing love for Caractacus ("Lovely Lonely Man") as she watches him and the children drive away. The next day Truly and the Potts family encounter some unexpected and comical attempts by Vulgarian spies to steal their car. Unsuccessful in these attempts, The Baron then kidnaps Caractacus' father from the family home under the mistaken impression that he is the inventor who created the unusual car. Truly and the rest of the Potts family see Grandpa being carried off by Baron Bomburst's airship and give chase in Chitty all the way to the Baron's castle in Vulgaria.
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The Drumpfinator and similar extensions resulted in multiple outlets accidentally replacing Trump's name. The American Jewish Congress announced the results of a poll of their members that referred to the candidate as "Donald Drumpf", which they later acknowledged was an accident caused by someone's use of the extension. Wired magazine published multiple articles replacing Trump's name with the phrase "Someone with Tiny Hands" in reference to the "Short-Fingered Vulgarian" meme, a result of another Chrome extension. alt=Headshot of comedian John Oliver, wearing a suit and glasses Reviewing the segment, Daniel Victor of The New York Times said "Donald Drumpf" was "a funny label", but stated that the Trump family had changed its name in the 17th century, so the surname change could not be attributed to the presidential candidate.
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Harris describes Lounds as "lumpy and ugly and small", with "buck teeth", and whose "rat eyes had the sheen of spit on asphalt". In terms of personality, Harris further describes Lounds as having "the longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego", sharpened by frustrated ambition: Resentful of this treatment, Lounds goes into tabloid journalism, receiving much higher pay and better treatment for writing popular but factually questionable news stories. Lounds has been characterized by reviewers as a film noir throwback: Lounds is also said to represent "the vulgarian who does not believe in anything except his own career; he does not understand the idealistic insanity of Dolarhyde or Lecter or the idealistic sanity of Graham". Lounds' death is reflected as a consequence of his having only "a modicum of understanding" of people with desires unlike his own.
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On the way the Borribles also meet a particularly vicious parody of Steptoe and Son (which was one of the most popular shows on TV at the time) in the form of Dewdrop, a former Borrible, and his son Ernie. The Adventurers are each assigned the name of the individual target of the High Command that they are to assassinate: Napoleon Boot, the suspicious and cynical Borrible; Chalotte, the tough and brave girl Borrible; Vulgarian (Vulge), frail-looking, but "tough as nails"; Bingo, always cheerful; Sydney, another female and an animal-lover; Stonks, strong and kind-hearted; Torreycanyon, light-hearted with a knack for mechanics; Orococco, the jovial, black Borrible. Napoleon, Chalotte, Sydney, Vulge, Bingo, Stonks, Torreycanyon, and Orococco set out to squash the Rumble threat – but other Borribles have secret agendas and personal vendettas of their own which create an even greater threat than the Rumbles ever were. The supposedly straightforward adventure dominoes into a desperate fight for the very existence of Borrible life.
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