Prince's most ambitious works cheerfully vulgarize familiar features of Abstract Expressionism, minimalism, and Pop art.
It may, like "The Great Train Robbery," owe something to 3-D, but the posthumous application of 3-D would not sharpen — and might even vulgarize — its moral thrust.
That's just the problem with Kristol: he is always ready to vulgarize, but he can't see that he, more than his antagonists, has become a member of what Orwell called a "permanent and pensioned" class of critics, and that "the quality of [his] thought deteriorates accordingly".
"Commercialization is not bad as long as we don't vulgarize the traditions and as long as we keep the spirit without violating it," said Tan Huwa, a historian at Yan'an University.
"Any attempt to vulgarize or rewrite the Soviet period and diminish the memory of Lenin... is an attempt to undermine the integrity of the Russian federation".
Neil Armfield, who directed the acclaimed production of the Australian epic "Cloudstreet," seen last year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ingeniously uses curtains and shadow-puppet techniques on a mostly bare stage to suggest, rather than vulgarize, the horror and despair.
If I may vulgarize the implications of Orwell's argument a bit: substitute Republicans for Kipling and Democrats for the opposition, and you have a good synopsis of the current state of American politics.
But clearly the dispute has touched a nerve here, sparking accusations that the planned European Union change will vulgarize rosé and undermine its blossoming reputation.
