Word: highbrow
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Does Harvard really need another highbrow club? “We’re not the fashion police,” says O’Neill. Through panels and Office of Career Services contacts, Vestis hopes to help undergraduates tap into the fashion industry...
...interesting things about the present moment in U.S. literary history is that the tough, fibrous membrane that used to separate literary fiction from popular fiction is rupturing. The highbrow and the lowbrow, once kept chastely separate, are now hooking up, which is why we have great, funky, unclassifiable writers like Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, Susanna Clarke and David Mitchell. And like Chabon, who in addition to writing The Final Solution has edited an anthology of hybrid highbrow-lowbrow tales, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Vintage; 328 pages). And like Jonathan Lethem, who has just published Men and Cartoons...
...highbrow hussy from New York. I'm a highbrow hussy from Washington. Senator, pistols or swords...
...mean, they don't want some highbrow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they're idiots and telling them that they're stupid...
...made Spamalot a hot ticket in Chicago, where it will begin a pre-Broadway run in late December. But the show's key to success may be its unlikely director, Mike Nichols. His understated, very American comic sensibility might seem an odd fit with the Pythons' quirky, lowbrow-meets-highbrow satire. Yet the comic alchemy could bring Broadway something it hasn't experienced since The Producers: real belly laughs. "There are not enough silly shows," says Idle. "You can't rely on Washington for all your laughs." --By Richard Zoglin