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...erect nipples - also perfectly match the pulp, exploitation origins of "Nightmare Alley." Drawing as he always has, with thick, black lines, Spain's technique graphically represents the dark tones of the work. Sailor Martin, the nasty tattooed man, doesn't have eyes, just two black slashes under a jutting brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down a Dark "Alley" | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

...away with insulting the Midwest all the time? What is it with the use of Middle America as a synonym for the unenlightened? Yeah, people in the Midwest hunt and pray to Jesus Christ, but that doesn’t mean that the region is full of low-brow hicks. My experience with people at Harvard is that they apply stereotypes to the Midwest in ways that they would be outrageously offended by if the same kind of simple-minded stereotypes were applied to people of a particular race or religion or what-have-you. For shame. Everyone knows that...

Author: By Sam A. Winter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who You Calling a Hick? | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords while tossing basketballs at a hoop. Hunan grew so successful that in 1998 it became the first TV studio to list on a Chinese stock market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not a Happy Camper | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Marty furrowed his youthful brow in thought...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By the Bell: Ivy Athletics Deserve a Better Fate | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...migré authors with a readership in both the West and China. In the past five years, however, her focus has been on the West. She thinks the Chinese market has become too commercial and low brow. "I don't really care how many readers I have in China," she says. "I only care how many of them are people with taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Chapter | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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