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...religious and sectarian strife; perforated via economic and cultural globalism; and reconceived by technology..." Hip and cerebral as these meditations may be, they are largely lost on the art viewer-cum-game player absorbed simply in scoring maximum pointage. Still, though the piece is less avant-garde than its high-brow title might suggest, it will not fail to amuse campy individuals who prefer to take their art less seriously sometimes...
...things considered, the donation room seemed clean and surprisingly bland, save for the high-brow, black-and-white French photo of a naked Nubian gal. But, of course, the room had a function--that of an ultra-efficient, semen tapping arousal cubicle. Thus, the quintessential stack of Penthouse. Unfortunately, it seems the bank has been having problems with people purloining their porn mags. The laminated cover of the Penthouse explicitly states that it belongs to the Cryobank and none other than the Cryobank. The bank has even taken matters into its own hands, posting threatening notices on the walls...
...draw (sometimes uncomfortable) chuckles. Some of these cartoons attempt to make legitimate social commentary! The Beckers, for example, a parody of the '50s ideal of the suburban family, addresses the important and apparently relevant issue of teenage cannibalism. My other favorite, No Neck Joe, is not quite so high-brow. The title is pretty self-explanatory. The main character is a little human with no neck and the whole of the plot rests of the fact that No Neck Joe has no neck and can't do some of the things his necky friends...
...news media is being segmented in the same manner. Someone who wants, say, in-depth analysis of a piece of congressional legislation, knows to skip NBC News in favor of a more "high-brow" news source--a Web site devoted to his area of interest, PBS or "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio. Conversely, someone who wants to read salacious material about Elizabeth Taylor or Elvis can pick up a supermarket tabloid. These media outlets have been relegated to the margins, and hence have freed up the bulk of the media to what New Yorker editor David Remnick...
...language manages a tone of religious pronouncement and philosophical anguish that still sounds natural coming from the play's routine, middle-aged characters. It is just like when you read certain sections of The Wasteland over the phone to your mother, and your roommate notices that your speech is high-brow without noting that you are actually uttering sovereign metaphors for the emptiness of modern life. Thus, is The Cocktail Party's pro-found human philosophy slipped beneath the rug of Eliot's drawing room drama. Eliot's thought is incipient, but it is lent a certain credibility through...